Home Plate - Out of the Base Path

[Velho]

[noumpere]

Not out of the basepath.

[Velho]

4 hours ago, noumpere said:

Not out of the basepath.

Please show your work (having fun not trying to be annoying)  

For example, at the below moment the runner's armpit is over the back line of the catchers box which is 8' from PoP 

 

[The Man in Blue]

I don't have him OOB when he goes past home plate.  However, when he reestablishes a basepath and then does the Time Warp

 

I have him 3 feet OOB at that point.

[Velho]

1 hour ago, The Man in Blue said:

I don't have him OOB when he goes past home plate.

Where does the base path end?

As an awesome Reddit comment on a different OOTBP thread said "Love when a good distinction between "line" and "line segment" becomes relevant"

[Velho]

Adding this as conversation fodder: 

 

[The Man in Blue]

17 hours ago, Velho said:

Where does the base path end?

As an awesome Reddit comment on a different OOTBP thread said "Love when a good distinction between "line" and "line segment" becomes relevant"

I saw that comment!  🤣

Sadly, the vast majority of our society uses "line" incorrectly.

[BigBlue4u]

The big question is, at what point is the start of the basepath determined?  What would be the call if the basepath was determined farther toward third base than as illustrated by the blue line? FWIW, I've got an out.

[The Man in Blue]

If we want to play the semantics game, NFHS, NCAA, and OBR all say 

" . . . if he runs more than three feet . . . "

So . . . leaps and contortions are not running.  We should be treating this like a runner's lane violation: where were the feet?

As far as the runner going past the base, NCAA does specify "three feet left or right . . ." so oversliding is not OOB.

[flyingron]

I put the "attempt to put out" occuring when the runner is pretty much stasnding centered in the RH batter's box.   That's even with and maybe 3' to the left of the center of the plate.   His shenanigans then take him beyond the catcher's box, which is 8' from the plate and then back around the corner of the box before the catcher recovers enough to make another tag attempt.    Both of those points are well over 3' from the center of the batters box to the plate.    The oversliding is still well right of the basepath by twice the allowable distance.

[Velho]

On 5/29/2026 at 7:05 AM, flyingron said:

I put the "attempt to put out" occuring when the runner is pretty much stasnding centered in the RH batter's box.

If referring to OP, I have the attempt underway at the video opening.

 

If the second video, I have it at F2 catching the ball (early in 0:09)