Jason, I normally complain if you cancel a game with your mystic powers.

No thank you. That’s simply too much for me.

This was just a normal Shadowrun session.

A bunch of the college fields I umpired at had weird things like that. The “in play” area behind North Park University in Chicago’s first base dugout (toward the outfield) goes beyond (deeper in foul territory) the back wall of the dugout, so there are areas on an overthrow of first that would mean you can’t even see…

I can give you “annoying,” since one likes what one likes. But “obscure”? Nah, dude. There’s no extra chapter in the rulebook that disappears, Harry Potter-like, when non-umpires read it. (Not that that wouldn’t be *cool*, but still.)

in which case the runners get the base they were running to plus one more

damn you. take your star.

> the other version of it is when the ball is thrown into the stands or into the dugout, in which case the runners get the base they were running to plus one more.

That’s very interesting; I played baseball my whole life (well, through college at least) and I didn’t know that a player had to return inside that line to make the throw. Makes sense, though.

Reported.

Thank you for getting to this first. I was going to say the same, but also call Chris some really mean things as a result that might get me grayed. Like “Wizards fan”, or some such.

Well said. And I’ll add that without this rule, we’d see players trying to leap out of the dugout to make the throw, and that would be a very different challenge depending whose dugout they fell into.

This is a good take.

Imagine Chris Thompson’s reaction next NBA season when a player who catches a pass and lands in the front row has to forfeit possession to the other team.

It’s not that obscure...as an umpire, it’s something we discuss with coaches during pre-game, if the out-of-play areas are marked with a line. It’s called “catch and carry”. Generally, if the player makes the catch, and momentum takes him out of play, but he stays on his feet, the play remains live, but he has to…

I don’t think you’re grasping the point of the rule - it’s actually to protect the defense. You’ve seen how long it can take for a player to get out of the stands or the dugout after making a catch - often, enough would-be time for the runners to advance more than one base after tagging up (especially if the player…

Disregard. Thought they were in Oakland. Oops

Like most visitors to Missouri, the Athletics got lucky and got runs they didn’t deserve.