It doesn’t, refs f’d up. Ball is dead as soon as it’s touched. It’s not loose so there is not batting a loose ball. There was no delay of game. The ball is dead once the “illegal touching” occurs, which happens at the 3 (or so).

Refs f’d up. Ball is down as soon as the defender touches it, not where they “down it” as the ball is dead as soon as a defender touches the ball regardless of what they’re doing when they touch it (unless they are out of bounds of course).

Did you seriously post this with the offending image on the lede page? You did! This should be fixed. If the image can be described as porn you should put it behind a warning tag

No. For something like this time is called and everything stops. If anyone advances it’s umpire discretion with regards to how far they would have safely gotten had play not stopped (same as a ball leaving play) which would be at most one base.

Epidural ones as well. In general any hematoma around the brain is very serious. I hope he makes it out OK.

Not calling the call is rude and also not per rule. Especially for non-native speakers who might only know a few words. Kid is waiting for the call as he has been taught.

Yea but the kid was in the right here. You hold he frame for the umpire until he makes the call. If he says nothing he hasn't called yet.

Because “too many runners” has been explicitly removed as an answer.

That is indeed the conundrum. Is there a reason for it?

No. I understand that they can race more or fewer people in the final. I do not understand what the point of the prelims is. The fact that they do not use lanes has nothing to do with the field winnowing from prelims given that they actually have them

I don’t think you understand the question.

I understand how physically. I mean that it has to be the case someone gets culled in the prelim. And so someone who didn't trip is almost certainly getting culled unless the entire race is good because one person fell.

If you recall all the stuff from baseball you may recall that there is a small window where you’re ahead. Of the runner, who then catches back up.

How does that work? How many people are normally culled in the prelim?

Nobody wants to pay a bunch of money to host. But if they didn't I bet a lot would love to host

The double/refuse to lose. I had turned 12 the month earlier and it was magical.

I have lived in Seattle my whole life and never heard this. Also the times is the worst.

He will never be the greatest of all time until he can carry the Mariners to a championship. Be like Mike? Fuck that gotta be better than Mike!