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Just saw this call this afternoon - is it correct

G gimages100+ posts
Runner on 3rd and runner on 1st. Infield playing in. Hot shot hit to 3rd baseman. Runner at 3rd breaks for home. 3rd baseman throws home getting runner from 3rd in a run down. Runner from 1st goes all way around to 3rd base while runner is in run down. Runner from 1st is actually standing on 3rd base as the player in the run down returns to 3rd and without being tag out is also standing on third base. The defensive team tags the runner from first and he is called out. The runner in the run down that returned to third thinks he is out and steps off the base and now is called out when the defensive player tags him with the ball for a double play. Big argument from the coach and much discussion in the stands. Is this the correct call?
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F 3FingeredGlove1,000+ posts
100% correct. Here's the OBR rule, but all codes are the same:
"7.03 (a) Two runners may not occupy a base, but if, while the ball is alive, two runners are touching a base, the following runner shall be out when tagged and the preceding runner is entitled to the base, unless Rule 7.03(b) applies.

(b) If a runner is forced to advance by reason of the batter becoming a runner and two runners are touching a base to which the following runner is forced, the following runner is entitled to the base and the preceding runner shall be out when tagged or when a fielder possesses the ball and touches the base to which such preceding runner is forced."

So 7.03 applies to the first out. The second out is just for being off the base.
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Jimmy03Jimmy031,000+ posts
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Originally posted by gimages:
Thanks. I guessed it might be this way. I saw it a a JC game between Canada college and San Jose city college. I told several people I would get a ruling from this site and now I can pass it on.


At proschool I was taught to point at the runner tagged and call the out, provided they tagged the correct player. If they did not tag the correct runner, we pointed at who they tagged and called him safe.

This mechanic saves a lot of grief.

By the way, for the uninitiated, the OP refers not to CAN A DA college, but to CA NYA DA Collge. I called many a game there when I first broke into JUCO years ago.

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