reestablishing force?
Question
Situation: 2 outs, bases loaded, I am in D position. Ball hit down first base line. Everyone except Home Plate umpire and me, because of position, see that it is foul. Home Base Umpire indicates a fair ball. All runners advanced one base. Crowd is loud because go ahead run just scored but Batter Runner seeing it foul touched 1st base and then retreated back to home plate to bat again. Either her coach didn抰 see indication of fair ball or was looking and thought it was foul also. Ball comes in from foul territory to 1st then to catcher where the batter runner is touched with ball in the batter抯 box.
Question: Did the Batter Runner reestablish the force at first by retreating and when touched with ball was a force out (ASA 8,7C). Does the Run count? Or do we have a timing play, runner from third safe and Batter runner out being touched off base for third out?
Answer
Once the batter touches first, there can not be a force play on her.
What you have is the batter/runner completing her run to first base, walks off the base, where does not matter, and then is tagged out. Since the run scored prior to the tag (not a force), you have a timing play with the run scoring.
The first base coach should have prevented this from happening. The situation is never what you think it is, it is always what the umpire says it is. Fortunately, the vast majority of the time these two things are the same.
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