Re: Stats Gone Wild! Plus Triple-Play Bonus

On Tue, 13 May 2008 20:29:11 -0500 msb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Mark Brader) wrote:

:>>>>> Could you please explain to the uninitiated exactly how one makes
:>>>>> an unassisted triple play?
 
:>>>> Typically, one catches a line drive near second base; steps on the
bag to
:>>>> double off the runner that had left the bag; and ...
 
:>>> When exactly is a runner liable to be tagged from behind like that?
 
:>> I don't see any runner being tagged from behind in what you've quoted.

:>I thought stepping on the bag counted as tagging the runner.  Okay, make
:>it "put out from behind".

It is technically an appeal play.

The runner is not allowed to leave the base on a caught fly ball until a
fielder touches it. By leaving the base early he is subject to be put out
on
appeal (this is one appeal case that you don't have to tell the UMP what
you
are appealing.

Another case is a runner going from first to 3rd (on a hit) and missing
2nd
base. The fielder can tag second for the put-out (in which case he would
tell
the ump what he was doing). Typically this play is done after all action
has
stopped (where the appeal is more obvious), but it can be done during the
action.

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