If a baserunner gets a single and safely runs to first but then slightly turns to the left (towards second) as an accident (not to run to second) is he forced to run to second base, thus pretty much getting himself out?
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Emma, Welcome to the HS Baseball Web!
There are many smart umpires here and then some guys like me who pretend.
I won't claim to speak for the umpires, but suspect they'd need a little more information to answer your question.
Rule 7.08 (J) is the rule in question, it reads: He fails to return at once to first base after overrunning or oversliding that base. If he attempts to run to second he is out when tagged. If, after overrunning or oversliding first base he starts toward the dugout, or toward his position, and fails to return to first base at once, he is out, on appeal, when he or the base is tagged;
If you could provide some more details, it would help...
Like did he turn towards second while the firstbaseman had the ball and get tagged out?
Did he simply over run first, turn to the secondbase side but simply return to first?
Was this a HS game or some other level of baseball?
There are many smart umpires here and then some guys like me who pretend.
I won't claim to speak for the umpires, but suspect they'd need a little more information to answer your question.
Rule 7.08 (J) is the rule in question, it reads: He fails to return at once to first base after overrunning or oversliding that base. If he attempts to run to second he is out when tagged. If, after overrunning or oversliding first base he starts toward the dugout, or toward his position, and fails to return to first base at once, he is out, on appeal, when he or the base is tagged;
If you could provide some more details, it would help...
Like did he turn towards second while the firstbaseman had the ball and get tagged out?
Did he simply over run first, turn to the secondbase side but simply return to first?
Was this a HS game or some other level of baseball?
Firstbase is allowed to be overrun but in doing so you have to do exactly that and then return directly. A better description of the"round" would be good. Mant times a runer will make a very slight round to read where the ball is. That makes him liable to be tagged out, it does not require him to go to second. The word force is a special word in baseball. It means that a runner is required to vacate his base, he no longer has legal posession,and has to advance to the next base. Once he has reached that base he is no longer forced to go anywhere. For example, the batter hits a single with bases loaded. All three runners are now required to go to the next base to give the BR a place to go. However, if the BR now decides he wants to try for second, he can but to doesn't make the other two runners advance.
This a long way to explain, probably no, your runner can't round without being active, but he can try to return to first.
This a long way to explain, probably no, your runner can't round without being active, but he can try to return to first.
Don't feed the trolls.
dash, you can't make that assumption on one post.