noumpere posted:Nuke83 posted:Story 2
In last night's semi final DH, Lee County faced Johns Creek and took game 1. Lee County led game two heading to the bottom of the 7th by a 3-2 score. Johns Creek tied the game and had bases loaded with two out. A walk pushed what appeared to be the winning run across the plate. Lee County HC protested that the base runner from second never touched third, constituting abandonment and the third out, negating the go ahead run.
It's not really "abandonment" -- it's an appeal of a forced runner not touching the advance base. And, yes, in FED, it's required that all runners do so. If the umpires saw that the runner did not advance, AND the appeal was made before all the umpires let the field (I think those are the only two basis for the protest), the out call negating the run is correct.
The appeal will be heard tomorrow and both teams will have a representative present. The abandonment comment came from a news article written on the game.
I agree that they got the ruling correct, but I'm not an official. NFHS rules clearly states "When the winning run is scored in the last half inning of a regulation game, or in the last half of an extra inning, as the result of a base on balls, hit batter or any other play with the bases loaded which forces the runner on third base to advance, the umpire shall not declare the game over until all runners have advanced to the next base." MLB rules only require batter and scoring runner to touch up.
The appeal was made before anyone left the field, so it would appear that all is in order.