it is just a pic I liked from google images,.. I don't even know what year it was,.. Fill me in though, I'm fuzzy on the rules,.. catcher blocking the plate and runner avoiding the tag.
Hard to say on base line cause runner's "established base line" does not equal "chalk line," necessarily. For example, runner rounds first, going to second and the "straight line" tween 1st and 2nd becomes the eststablished "base line." I forget the exact wording, it's been a while since I've done my annual rule book reading.
I was going off of what I remembered with the three foot rule. A quick google search reveals ... What does all of this mean for my player? A runner, in general, is allowed to run outside of the base line. However, when a tag play is being made on the runner, the runner must go directly toward the base and can only evade a tag by dodging up to three feet to the left or right, sliding, ducking, or, in very rare situations, jumping over the tag. Alternatively, a runner can attempt to run back toward the base from which she came. Considering the body position of the catcher it doesn't look possible she was blocking the plate. I'd say it's more than three feet from the line to her glove or the line to the runners feet. It's a neat pic...just got me wondering if it was called and how it was called. No matter what the call, it was probably called differently by the same ump in a different game. Judgement call, no doubt.
@TerryP This is what I'm saying. The "line" is not the chalk line, necessarily. I initially said it would be hard to say from the pic you posted. Having looked again, being the catcher left her feet, I'd think she caught the ball (or picked it up- may have been bunted on squeeze) in front of home plate. Given that, I would assume the runner was running well outside the chalk line in anticipation; therefore, not out of the baseline. They're taught to always run outside the chalk line so a batted ball doesn't hit them- in which case they'd be out.
If the rule book says within three feet of the base line, it's got to be the chalk line, right? It can't be three feet from an arbitrary point each time there's a runner. EDIT: applicable only between home and first and third. This is going to bug me until I download the rule book, I suspect.
No. Here are a couple of explanations. http://www.wusa.org/page/show/487116-what-is-the-rule-about-running-out-of-the-base-path- http://www.wusa.org/page/show/487116-what-is-the-rule-about-running-out-of-the-base-path-
In simple terms, if you over run first base, at whatever point your turn starts to head for the bag, that establishes the " line." From where the runner is -wherever he/she is when they commit towards 2nd or 3rd or home- and a straight line from there to the bag establishes the base "line."
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