Ball thrown in dugout

[Guest Bush]

How many bases to you get when a ball goes in the dugout

[Tborze]

You need to be more specific. Explain the situation. 

[Guest Bush]

5 minutes ago, Guest Bush said:

How many bases to you get when a ball goes in the dugout

Runner on first. Batter hits a ball to third he throws to first and it goes in the dugout. Our the runners awarded two bases

[beerguy55]

Depends on if it's baseball, softball, a pitch, a foul ball, a fair ball, a throw from the infield, a throw from the outfield, day of the week, time of day, if the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligned with Mars.

[Replacematt]

4 minutes ago, Guest Bush said:

Runner on first. Batter hits a ball to third he throws to first and it goes in the dugout. Our the runners awarded two bases

Runners (including the batter-runner) are awarded two bases from the time of the pitch, unless all runners have advanced at least one base at the time of the throw, in which case they get two from the time of the throw.

[MooseLoop]

BTW, time of throw is when the ball leaves the thrower's hand.

[ousafe]

To make things complicated - how about when managers have been told to keep dugout gate/doors closed, but it goes into the offensive team's dugout with the gate (inappropriately) open?  Do you give the offensive team the base award that results because of their transgression (having gate open)?

[umpstu]

1 hour ago, Guest Bush said:

How many bases to you get when a ball goes in the dugout

More then likely the bases are already on the field so the odds of getting any bases from the dugout are slim.

[Rich Ives]

27 minutes ago, ousafe said:

To make things complicated - how about when managers have been told to keep dugout gate/doors closed, but it goes into the offensive team's dugout with the gate (inappropriately) open?  Do you give the offensive team the base award that results because of their transgression (having gate open)?

Yes

[Rich Ives]

Methinks the OP is from someone in the "one base on an overthrow" camp and is mystified as to why the runners got two bases.

[blue23ll]

1+1

[beerguy55]

18 minutes ago, Rich Ives said:

Methinks the OP is from someone in the "one base on an overthrow" camp and is mystified as to why the runners got two bases.

Or, it's a confusion between time of throw and time it went out of play.

Last night I was watching a community game where F4 threw into the dugout, where BR hadn't reached first base at time of throw (ie. if throw was on target BR would have been out) and inexperienced umpire gave BR third base.

[ElkOil]

58 minutes ago, umpstu said:

More then likely the bases are already on the field so the odds of getting any bases from the dugout are slim.

Not unless they have spares ready to go for just such an occasion.

[Guest NJ Coach]

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