Let's hit F5 on our keyboard, and refresh not the screen but our memory. Heretofore, I've written about this subject:

At any level of ball, with one out the batter interferes with a play on R3 at the plate. The intent of the book would say to call out the player who interfered. The rule says call out the runner from third when there are fewer than two out.

It's a high school game, and the visiting team pinch hits for Bubba, its pitcher, in the top of the first! What if in the bottom of the inning, the pitcher doesn't reenter to pitch to the obligatory one batter? I asked: Is he through as pitcher, or is he through from the game? Judgment says he's out of the game. The rule says he's through only as a pitcher.

Going to college

Let's take one of our rule gurus out of the MLBUM and ask him to use intent and judgment to solve a problem over at Disch-Faulk Field in Austin, where the University of Texas is "entertaining" Texas A&M University.

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