Happened this weekend. Game is in ITB, score tied, bases loaded, 1 out, home team batting. Winning run on 3B. Batter hits a shallow pop fly that probably should have been caught but wasn’t. Runner at 3B scores. Runners at 1B and 2B (mistakenly) went back to the base. Winning runner crosses home plate. Umpire calls ball game. Base runners take off to the next base once they realized the was not caught and the girl that hit the ball was at 1B. Defense picks the ball up and throws to 3B for second out, then throws to 2B but the girl was safe. If the defense would have gotten the girl going to 2B out (3rd out) I am assuming the run would not have counted due to the force out rule. What y’all got? It was a chaotic finish
Walk Off Scenario
- Thread starter Cornbread
- Start date
Welcome to Discuss Fastpitch
Your FREE Account is waiting to the Best Softball Community on the Web.
- Jun 20, 2015
- 851
- 93
if the outs recorded were still force outs, run comes of the books. No different than bases loaded 1 out, 6-4-3 double play negates the runner from 3rd scoring.
- Apr 18, 2023
- 9
- 3
You would be correct. Just because the run scored the play is not over.
- May 29, 2015
- 3,796
- 113
This has been missed in higher level games than this.
- Sep 29, 2014
- 2,421
- 113
But when the umpire says "ball game" probably raising his hands this should be seen as the ball now being dead, players reactions after this call shoudn't be taken into account and the game should be over.
- May 29, 2015
- 3,796
- 113
Which is why you (the umpire) should not kill anything until the natural play is finished.
- Mar 1, 2013
- 404
- 43
We have a 5 run limit per inning in the youth league I call. I’m often heard, “let them touch” on a bases loaded walk before saying, “bring it in”. It goes like this:
Me: Ball four
Coach: that’s five
Me: let them touch
In the grand scheme it doesn’t matter to THIS game but if these leagues are to help them learn the game, they need to learn to finish the play, even on a bases loaded walk.
Me: Ball four
Coach: that’s five
Me: let them touch
In the grand scheme it doesn’t matter to THIS game but if these leagues are to help them learn the game, they need to learn to finish the play, even on a bases loaded walk.
My last regular season high school went into extra innings because the batter runner didn't finish her walk.
Bases loaded 2 outs, tied game. Ball 4 happens, runners on 3 and 2 advance their base and touch. Runner on 1 is confused and doesn't go immediately to 2 but the 1st base coach eventually gets her to go. The Batter-runner doesn't advance as the runner from 3rd has already touched home. Me and my partner are not calling ball game or time and are just standing there. Everyone is yelling at her to go to first. A player from the dugout runs over to her and pushed her and tells her to go touch 1st. Now we have the 3rd out for offensive personnel assisting that is not a runner, that was the Batter-runner. So, the run came off the board and we went to extra innings.
Bases loaded 2 outs, tied game. Ball 4 happens, runners on 3 and 2 advance their base and touch. Runner on 1 is confused and doesn't go immediately to 2 but the 1st base coach eventually gets her to go. The Batter-runner doesn't advance as the runner from 3rd has already touched home. Me and my partner are not calling ball game or time and are just standing there. Everyone is yelling at her to go to first. A player from the dugout runs over to her and pushed her and tells her to go touch 1st. Now we have the 3rd out for offensive personnel assisting that is not a runner, that was the Batter-runner. So, the run came off the board and we went to extra innings.
