Same uniform number

[soapbox]

I don't have all the specifics.  Not sure it matters.  Rule set is Fed.  16 comes to the plate and hits a run scoring triple.  VC tells U1 that 16 appears twice on the lineup card.  In fact, they have a JV player wearing the same number.  This #16 entered the game as a sub.  Lets assume reported and then not reported.  What is the ruling.  I find no case play to support the umpire ruling.

[Thunderheads]

If the names are correct, #16 Jones, and #16 Smith, the lineup is ok ....

 

(pretty sure)

[Mike Prince]

1-4-3 states that no two players should wear the same number.  However I do not see a penalty for this.  As long as the batter is the correct one by name in the book, I do not think I have anything here except to tell the HC his players should wear different numbers.

[soapbox]

That's what I have.  It was SB, but no different in baseball.  They let VC talk them into an out.  Went from 2-1 with 1 out R3 to 2 out nobody on.

[Jimurray]

That's what I have.  It was SB, but no different in baseball.  They let VC talk them into an out.  Went from 2-1 with 1 out R3 to 2 out nobody on.

If unreported, I believe in FED SB that the sub is out. Which is why some BB coaches are adamant about an out because they have coached SB as well.

[maineump]

No out - play on.

As above the names are what matters. Plate guy should have seen it on the line-up card at the plate meeting, but there is no penalty that I can find.

Becomes a legal sub (if eligible) once in the game.

We have a couple of schools that the V and JV have the same uniforms - but no duplicate numbers - imagine the concept  . The coaches even have matching uniforms!

[grayhawk]

Had a dupicate on a lineup card in a JV game yesterday. One was a starter and one was a sub. I asked the coach if he thought the sub would enter and he said, "There's a chance." I responded, "Like a 'Dumb & Dumber' chance?" I just asked him that if he did enter that sub to let me know and I would report the player by name to the other coach.

[Stan W.]

I've got nothing... moving on, make a note on lineup card of name....playing on......

[cyclonehokiece]

Name matters, not number, I just make sure it is correct on my card.  I have had games where you have "red 2" (the 2 on his shirt is red) and "white 2" you just go with it.  In youth ball, you let the kids play.  Heck one game a year everyone wears 42 in the major leagues.

[mstaylor]

If I read the OP correctly, one number was a starter, the other was a JV player which entered as a sub. Even if the sub was listed, which I am assuming he wasn't listed because he wasn't present at gametime, I never check numbers of subs against starters. When he came in it is quite probable that the duplication wasn't caught because the numbers were too far apart on the card. Other than a bookkeeping SNAFU I have nothing, certainly not an out.