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Strange end to game

jjbaseball98373jjbaseball9837310+ posts
Big book rules, top of seventh inning with two outs, runner on third.
Batter swings and misses on strike three. Ball gets away from the catcher to his right, about ten feet foul.Catcher retrieves the ball and makes a throw towards first baseman in foul territory. The runner reads the eyes of the the first baseman and swerves to right and is struck in the back by the ball. The umpire calls runner out for running outside the lane.
Their coach came to argue that there was no lane marked and the umpire can not make that call. What do you guys think?
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D dash_riprock1,000+ posts
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Originally posted by jjbaseball98373:
Big book rules, top of seventh inning with two outs, runner on third.
Batter swings and misses on strike three. Ball gets away from the catcher to his right, about ten feet foul.Catcher retrieves the ball and makes a throw towards first baseman in foul territory. The runner reads the eyes of the the first baseman and swerves to right and is struck in the back by the ball. The umpire calls runner out for running outside the lane.
Their coach came to argue that there was no lane marked and the umpire can not make that call. What do you guys think?

It could be running lane interference. It could also be intentional interference with a thrown ball, in which case the running lane is irrelevant.
piaa_umppiaa_ump5,000+ posts
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Originally posted by dash_riprock:
It could be running lane interference. It could also be intentional interference with a thrown ball, in which case the running lane is irrelevant.


agreed..........of course it could also be nothing but a poor throw by the catcher.....now when there is no running lane marked it would make that a running lane violation call a tough sell, but sometimes you have to go what the big guy in blue sees and calls....(htbt)
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Jimmy03Jimmy031,000+ posts
There is always a running lane, whether it is marked or not. (And one line is almost always marked...the baseline.)

Same goes for a batter's box. I called a batter out in a HS game without a marked box when, as he bunted the ball, he had moved toward the pitcher and was clearly more than four feet in front of the plate, touching the infield grass. Not a peep from the coach.

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