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In Major League Baseball (MLB), the specific rules concerning the uncaught third strike are addressed in Rules 5.05 and 5.09 of the Official Baseball Rules: [1] On an uncaught third strike with (1) no runner on first base, or (2) with a runner on first base and two outs, the batter immediately becomes a runner.
A strikeout swinging refers to a swinging third strike. For force outs and/or tag outs (outs that retire runners): Throw out: refers to when a throw is made to a fielder covering a base, who then uses the ball to put out a runner coming to that base. [4] Ground out: when the batter hits a ground ball that leads to them being thrown out. For fly ...
Early rules stated that "three balls being struck at and missed and the last one caught, is a hand-out; if not caught is considered fair, and the striker bound to run." The modern rule has changed very little. The addition of the called strike came in 1858. In 1880, the rules were changed to specify that a third strike had to be caught on the fly.
Unfortunately for Landry Pate of the Wylie Little League All-Stars, who are representing Texas in this year’s Little League World Series, he was on the wrong end of an awful call on Tuesday night.
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The Official Baseball Rules, published by Major League Baseball, govern all professional play in the United States and Canada. [3] Many amateur and youth leagues use the OBR with only a few modifications for safety, including Little League, PONY League, and Cal Ripken League.
In baseball, a fourth out is a legal out made by the defense after three outs in a half-inning have already been made. According to the rules, the third out does not cause the ball to become dead; if the fielders make a subsequent out that prevents a run from scoring, this out will supersede the apparent third out, thus becoming the recorded third out.