The following is extremely unlikely but a real situation. Would appreciate your comments: Bottom of the 9th inning and score is tied…2 outs; bases loaded. Batter hits a home run. All runners start advancing but the man on 3rd base on the way home collapses…say 30 feet from home plate. He dies. Obviously he can’t touch home plate and the runners before him cannot pass him and score. What be the ruling in this situation?
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[guessing]The home run ball is gone, it is a done deed. All that remains is for the players to advance accordingly. The umps allow the team to select a pinch runner and the players advance for the 4 run win.
More likely, though, the opposing coach will offer to concede the 4 runs without their actually having them go across the plate. Probably not that way in the rule book, but under the circumstances I’m sure it would be allowed.
Yeah, but geez. The poor guy.
Shouldn’t we say some words over him?
Like maybe he was a good ball player, even though maybe he wasn’t?
It wouldn’t cost anything.
Ya think? Maybe. I dunno.
Underneath my clothes I am completely naked.
technically, as soon as he was taken out of the baseline by the ambulance, he’d be out, and any runner who passed him in the basepath would be out.
but in a real-world situation, the commissioner would grant the run, and nobody would complain.
In a Mets playoff game this year, Robin Ventura hit a grand slam to win the game but only made it to first before being mobbed by his teammates. Because he never did make it to home plate, it was officially scored an RBI single. Mets won by one instead of four.
In your example, I believe the batter only has to make it to first for the run to count.
Any non-dead base runners would be allowed home plate regardless of the corpse on the basepath. I think that’s how it works.
Unless of course, both the runner on third and the batter dropped dead. Then I imagine that the body would have to be dragged over to touch first for the run to score.
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If I were beaned with a fastball, fling my limp, lifeless body to first, cause, dammit, I earned it!
Wouldn’t it be technically legal for the following base runner to push (not drag) the dead runner over home plate?
Actually, I believe there is a rule against baserunners/teammates/coaches “assisting” runners… I’m not sure about this, but fairly confident.
This very thing actually happened to me in the passed. I was on third in an American Legion game back in Kentucky in the 60s. My friend and neighbor, Myron Finkelstein who was 0-102 for the season actually got a hold of one in a clothes game. Our teem were down 2-1,bottom of the ninth. I was on third, no second actually. Anyway…boom, Finkelstein connects, the whole place goes bonkers, I round third was tripped by that anti-seamenite, Alvie Gored. I fall flat on my knockin and wham am out like a lite. Next thing I know, I wake up and Finkelstein is carrying me down the terd baseline. When we get to home plate, he drops me on the plate and then steps on my hand which was resting on home.
The ump gives the double safe sign and we win 3 too 2. The other team protested but the league offise ruled in our favor.
I hope this helps.
Tanks 4 splaining it tombme. R U A smart ass or a dumb ass? Stupid responses like yours Terbutaline or what ever your moniker is belong on some other web site.
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