Reply to "Controversial Ending to a local HS playoff game"

schwammi100+ posts

I read something somewhere years ago that has always helped me in these situations. It said "every runner (including the batter) must reach a base safely for any run to count". In the case of a force, each forced runner must reach the next base. In the case of no force, a runner may advance, or return to their starting base. Either scenario in a non-force is considered reaching a base safely.

This play is more complicated by the fact that it is a base on balls with no true standard for timing out a runner. So what to do? (it's obvious....)

Too many players on the field...call the technical and shoot the free throws!!

5/28/099:03 PM

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