youth league umpire's Dad

[Guest Rick]

5 th and 6 th grade Little League Baseball.

Bases loaded, no outs.  Batter hits ground ball between 1st and 2nd base, the ball hits the runner advancing to 2nd.  the second baseman picks up the ball throws the ball to first before the hitter gets there.  Both runners on 3rd and 2nd score on the play.  At first the (umpire) calls the runner the ball struck out and the hitter out, and lets both runners score.  There is a conversation between the coaches and the Young Umpire and was decided the runner struck by the hit ball is out,  the hitter was awarded first base, but did allow both runners to score. I believe the explanation was once the 2nd basemen made a play with the ball by throwing it to first all runners could advance at there own risk ??

[udbrky]

If the ball hits the runner in front of a fielder, the ball is dead. The runner is out. Batter gets first, runners return to their base they had acquired last. So they go back to 2nd and 3rd. No runs score.

 

Runners only advance if forced. Once the runner is hit and out, the force on the other 2 runners is removed.

 

No way to make a play on the batter.

[noumpere]

It's a good thing the coaches got involved to correct this.

[basejester]

7.08 Any runner is out when:

f) He is touched by a fair ball in fair territory before the ball
has touched or passed an infielder. The ball is dead and
no runner may score, nor runners advance, except runners
forced to advance.

[Rich Ives]

8 minutes ago, udbrky said:

If the ball hits the runner in front of a fielder, the ball is dead. The runner is out. Batter gets first, runners return to their base they had acquired last. So they go back to 2nd and 3rd. No runs score.

 

Runners only advance if forced. Once the runner is hit and out, the force on the other 2 runners is removed.

 

No way to make a play on the batter.

This ^^^^^