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Show I ONE-BASE HITS I V.y BtSRT SIMPSON ... -two Runners on Same Base. There seems to be a question of who baa the right to a base occupied by two runners ut the same time, making a difficult situation to a simple play. No rule Iti baseball penults a base runner to be deprived of u base he Is legally entitled to. Suppose runners are on first and second buses when a double steal Is pat on. The play Is made on the man going in ,to third base. The runner realizes be will be caught if he continues on to third base and makes an attempt to return to second base. He Is caught In the trap, but eludes the baseman and slides into second base only to find It now occupied occu-pied by the runner who originally was on tirst base. " The lutter Is forced to return to first base ut the peril of being tagged out. If lie regains first base without being tagged he has a legal right to hold it, although he had held a succeeding base. This Is one Instance where a t.ase runner ran the bases in reverse order without automatically retiring himself. him-self. When two runners are standing on any base at the same time the man originally holding the base Is the one entitled to it and the other can be retired by being tagged with the ball. The above cates apply to any of the bases only when base runners are not forced to proceed. When runners are forced to proceed by the batter becoming becom-ing a base runner and two runners occupy oc-cupy the same base, the runner forced off the base can be retired by being tagged with the ball or by tagging the base be was supposed to occupy. |