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None. Unlike you I played organized baseball from the time I was eight till I was in my early twenties. I played in summer leagues, fall leagues, winter leagues and spring leagues. I have been involved in plays like this one, both as a runner and as a pitcher covering home.
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Who, other than you, ever said I didn't play any organized baseball? Yeah. No one.
Seriously, though. Why would you bring up your experience with baseball as an 8-year-old as if it has any bearing on how well you understand a very specific MLB rule?
Did you use the MLB rules in your leagues? And were your leagues were serious enough that the umps even knew the rules? Cause I know a lot of people get very serious about sports in, say, high school... but I bet a ton of the officials in high school sports, baseball included, don't know anything except the rules that come up in every series.
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I didn't say they happen "all the time".
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My mistake.
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Here's the thing: you have a horse in this race, clearly--and I don't. I know the rule and the intent of it and how it's called--you don't. I understand it must suck to be an O's fan--I root for the Twins, myself. Just get over it. This is a play in baseball.
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Stop making assumptions about me. I don't care about the Os or the Yanks apart from the "it'd be fun if the underdog won" kind of mentality. I saw the play and thought "boy, he sure was all over the place while trying to get to home... I bet that is against a rule... I'm going to go look it up."
And if you're so enlightened about the "intent" of a rule that says something that has a very plain, literal meaning, then please do share what this intent is and how it is that you know it.