rgillette

In our county, in Florida, the athletic director has deemed that all JV games have a two hour time limit. Not drop dead but no new inning after 2 hours unless there is a tie. Ties are to be played out. The reasoning behind this is that JV and varsity sometimes play back to back and that could end up having the Varsity game starting way late. The AD has left it up to our association as to who keeps the time. In the games that I work the base umpire will keep a watch, IN HIS POCKET, and let the plate umpire know when we are at the time limit.

What base the runner occupies is always determined by the last legally acquired base at the time of the pitch. So in this instance, even though the runner had left 1st, he still is ruled to be occuping 1st base at the time of the pitch. 1st base is still occupied with only one out so the batter is out. The runner from 1st is still liable to be put out should there be a play on him. If there were two outs then by your description of the play the batter would be safe at first.