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Guest Mike C.
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High School rule set.

Bases loaded, 2 outs...  Pitcher throws ball for to the batter.   Batter reaches first and for some reason takes four steps towards second base.  Catcher throws to first baseman who tags the batter-runner 10 feet towards second base.  This runner from third has not reached the plate when the tag occurs.  

Does the run count?

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9 hours ago, Dottelife said:

No

While this looks like a time play, it's not.  The run scores.

 

This is from OBR, but FED has a similar case play:

Rule 5.06(b)(3)(B) Comment: A runner forced to advance
without liability to be put out may advance past the base to
which he is entitled only at his peril. If such a runner, forced to
advance, is put out for the third out before a preceding runner,
also forced to advance, touches home plate, the run shall score.
Play. Two out, bases full, batter walks but runner from second
is overzealous and runs past third base toward home and is
tagged out on a throw by the catcher. Even though two are out,
the run would score on the theory that the run was forced home
by the base on balls and that all the runners needed to do was
proceed and touch the next base

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FED Official Interpretation:  Hopkins:  A run scores on a bases loaded walk even if a runner overruns or overslides a base and is tagged for the third out before the runner from third crosses the plate.

2008 NFHS Baseball Rules Interpretations

SITUATION 4: With the bases loaded and two outs and a 3-2 count, the runners are off with the pitch. The pitch is ball four, but the runner from first slides into second and his momentum carries him over and past the base. The catcher makes a quick throw to second base and the tag is applied for the third out before the runner from third trots home and touches the plate. Does the run count? RULING: Yes, the run does count. Each runner may, without liability to be put out, advance one base when he is forced to vacate his position on the bases due to the batter being awarded a base-on-balls. The runners advance past the bases to which they are entitled at their own risk. All runners are awarded one base, and as long as all the bases are touched appropriately, the run would count. (8-1-2a, 8-1-1c, Awards Table)

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