Does THIS run count?

No.

No......and here is the rule citation. NFHS provided, but is applicable to all codes (NFHS, OBR NCAA)

NFHS rule 9 article 1 (exception)
A run is not scored if the runner advances to home plate during action in which the 3rd out is made as follows....

a. by the batter runner before he touches first base.

B. by another runner being forced out.

thank you for your detailed assistance.

i was pretty sure i was correct during the game when i tried to convince the Ump and the opposing coaches [7/8 roberto clemente division] but i was outnumbered and did not have the rule at the tip of my tongue...but i knew i was right. no run should have been counted but it was counted! we did win 10-3 [or should i say 10-2].

thanks. this is a great forum.

tzz

To take this to the next level - I think I'm right on this:

Bases loaded

2 outs

Batter hits the ball to the fence - R1, R2 & R3 score to "win" the game. Hitter never reaches 1st in the excitement:

Ball thrown to 1st baseman who touches base. Batter out - no runs allowed.

Following the logic of the rule, you would be correct....no run counts.

Heres one from my past....I am the Base Umpire.....bases loaded, bottom of the 7th, score tied...Batter singles and the runner from third walks home and touches home.....Batter/runner never advances to first....but seeing the runner from third touching home, runs to home to celebrate the win.......

Neither the UIC or I move an inch........waiting for the defense to throw to first......... they never did.....they ran off the field, got in line and shook hands with the offense........all the time they could have had the out at first.........and went into extra innings....

piaa_ump, something almost identical to that happened in a game involving our local unlimited age team in an NBC tournament game a couple of years ago. Only in this case, the centerfielder was astute enough to realize what was going on! Our team was in extra innings, tied in the bottom of the eleventh, and the other team had the bases loaded with one out. The batter laid down a perfect squeeze bunt, apparently scoring the run from third. As both teams are leaving the field, our center fielder, coming in toward the infield, tells our second baseman to go back and stand on the bag. The CF then gets the attention of the catcher and signals him to throw the ball to second. The second baseman, who is facing the outfield, watching the centerfielder, turns around just in time to throw a glove up in self defense (!) and catch the ball. Then the centerfielder yells at the firstbaseman to get back on the bag, and has the second baseman throw the ball to first. The centerfielder had seen the whole play, including the fact that the batter had stopped short of first base, AND the runner who had been on first never went all the way to second base, either. The umpires were on top of things, and called both runners out. Double play, end of the inning! The most astonishing thing about that play, to me at least, is that the opponent was a team of college and post-college players---you would think they would have known better.

The game actually got stranger after that. In the top of the thirteenth, we loaded the bases with nobody out. Then the sprinklers came on, and nobody at the field could turn them off! (the field was being rented from a local high school, and the tournament officials at that location did not have the necessary key). So the game was suspended until the next day. We finally scored three runs when the game was resumed, and our pitcher worked a 1-2-3 bottom of the 13th, so we won.

JW,

Wow, what a game.

When you finished the game the next day, did you start the top of the inning with base4s loaded or did the umpires make you return to the last completed inning and start over?

The game resumed the next morning with the bases loaded (i.e., the same point as it had been suspended the day before).