Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!berry From: berry@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: can one player run past another? - (nf) Message-ID: <1222@fortune.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 20:06:11 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.1222 Posted: Thu Jun 30 20:06:11 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jul-83 07:12:14 EDT Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, San Carlos, CA Lines: 21 #R:utcsrgv:-164200:fortune:10500006:000:691 fortune!berry Jun 30 16:10:00 1983 RE: Players passing one another One runner cannot pass a leading runner. Well, he can but he can't touch the next base before a leading runner. If it happens the defending team can make an appeal to have the passing runner called out. This is an appeal play, not an automatic out. Along similar lines a base is mine until I touch the next base. In other words, if two runners are both standing on second the lead runner is legally on the base and the following runner is liable to be put out by being touched with the ball. This is true even if the lead runner has left second to go to third and for some reason turned around and come back to second. David harpo!fortune!berry