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RulesMLB Umpire Manual

FIELDER GOING INTO OUT-OF-PLAY AREA

Rule 5.09(a)(1) Comment: The Comment to Official Baseball Rule 5.09(a)(1) stipulates that no fielder may step into or go into a dugout to make a catch. However, if a fielder, after making a legal catch on the playing surface, steps or falls into any out-of-play area at any point while in possession of the ball,…

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BUNT/FOUL BALL

Rule 5.09(a)(4): • A pitched ball striking a bat as the batter is pulling it back after initially squaring to bunt is a foul ball (assuming the ball goes into foul territory). • The definition of a bunt is already included in the Official Baseball Rules. The purpose of this interpretation is to clarify that…

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ABANDONMENT ON A FORCE PLAY

Rules 5.01(b)(1), 5.09(b)(2), 5.09(b)(1) and (2) Comment, 5.09(b)(6): A base runner being called out for abandoning his effort to touch the next base does not change a force play to a tag or time play on any other runner(s).

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APPEAL PLAYS—APPROVED RULINGS

Rule 5.09(c): (1) Runner on first base, one out. The batter doubles. Runner on first rounds the bases and tries for home. On the play at the plate, the catcher misses the tag and runner misses the plate in sliding by. As the catcher begins to chase the runner to apply a tag, the batter-runner…

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SIGNAL TO THE BULLPEN

Rules 5.10(b), 5.10(b) Comment: The manager must notify the umpiring crew that he is making a pitching change by clearly and unambiguously informing the home plate umpire of the pitcher who will be entering the game. Additionally, the manager should be mindful to signal for a left-handed pitcher with his left hand, or a right-handed…

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PITCHER CHANGING DEFENSIVE POSITIONS

Rules 5.10(d) Comment, 5.10(g): The purpose of this Comment is to prohibit a player from being a substitute for a pitcher more than once in the same inning. Thus, a player who starts (or enters the game during) an inning as a pitcher may substitute for any position(s) afterwards; however, he may not return to…

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NCAA 5-9 Halted Game

Halted Game SECTION 9.     a. A game that has been stopped at any time after its start because of inclement weather, darkness, light failure or curfew may be continued by mutual agreement reached before the start of the contest by the competing institutions, or according to conference or tournament policy, to a predetermined point…

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NCAA 5-14 No Contest

No Contest SECTION 14.     a. There shall be no forfeit of a contest until the umpire or other appropriate contest official has assumed jurisdiction of the contest in accordance with the applicable playing rules. b. When a team does not appear (e.g., due to weather conditions, accidents, breakdown of vehicles, illness or catastrophic causes),…

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NCAA 5-15 Game Misconduct

Game Misconduct SECTION 15.     a. Unsportsmanlike-Conduct Rule. No coach, player or team shall at any time, whether from the bench, the coaches’ box or on the playing field, or elsewhere: 1) Incite or attempt to incite, by word, sign or actions that dispute an umpire’s decision and potentially incites a demonstration by spectators; 2)…

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NCAA 6-1 Live-Ball

Live-Ball SECTION 1.     a. After the umpire calls “Play,” the ball is alive and in play and remains alive and in play until, for legal cause, or at the umpires’ call of “Time” suspending play, the ball becomes dead. While the ball is dead, no player may be put out, no bases may be…

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