Gunnison Valley News | 1928-01-26 | Page 6 | Big Baseball Problem for Hot-Stove League

Big Baseball Problem for Hot-Stove League Here's a baseball problem for the hot stove league: Base runners are on second and third with nobody out. Batter hits long fly to left fielder. Runner on third base leaves the bag before the catch and crosses the plate. Runner on second waits until ball is caught and then, seeing throw is V the plate, dashes for third. Throw is wild and runner who had been on second continues con-tinues home and crosses the plate without being tagged. ''"earn in the field then calls the attention at-tention of the umpire to the fact that runner had left third too soon. Umpire Um-pire sustains contention. Now what is the status of the man who had been on second base? Would the run that he carried over the plate count?