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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 09:54:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 09:54:47 1985
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>>> Actually in the case of an injury, any player can re-enter the game to
>>> replace an injured player. And you don't have to force an outfielder who
>>> hasn't played to replace an injured third baseman either.
  
>> Incorrect.  In only one specific instance, injury to the last
>> available catcher, may a player return to the all-star game.
 
> Well I'm probably wrong, but is Dwight Gooden going to play shortstop,
> take a couple of hot shots from George Brett, Carleton Fisk, or Don
> Mattingly, if an infielder is injured and he's the last player on the
> bench, all the time risking HIS neck out there?
> GET SERIOUS!
> Bruce Rodean

I'm only telling you what the rules are.  If the NL ran out of
shortstops, for example, due to injury, I think it more likely that
Ryne Sandberg will get a try over there than Dwight Gooden!

						David Rubin