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Runner is on 3rd base, pass ball, catcher retrieves the ball and throws ball to 3rd base as runner realizes he can not make it home. Runner is struck with the thrown ball while returning to 3rd base and is inside the foul line (running on the field of play), is the runner out or safe???
Sonny,
Unless the runner blocks the ball on purpose or is running way out of the baseline (more then three feet), the ball is live and the runner is safe (presuming no defender can get the ball and tag the runner before he makes it to third base).
Hope this helps!
Brian
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Brian Flaspohler
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Questions about baseball rules, general information about the game, statistical analysis, questions about players, questions about Baseball records. I am a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and a lifelong baseball fanatic. Don't ask me questions about training - this is not my area of expertise.
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