| Show They Batted Out of Order and Now All National League Worries Over Decision I I IT I n ByNEA By By- NEA TEA 8 Service PITTSBURG Aug 11 Baseball abounds In unusual situations and often otten tho the majors produce freak plays play that It would seem could not possiblY occur among the amateurs Who Vho should bo be called out That's a a rn that still envelopes envelopes envelopes a out order play that came up sip IP in a recent game rame In Pittsburg was as the tho offending side Pirates batting order called for lIng Ha to be bo the first flitt man up In a a en CPI tain inning Grimm fol- fol followed followed fol followed lowed him In the batting order and then came came- DIDN'T S SKI SEI I IT Instead l of Rawlings going to bat first stepped to the th plate first Rod aad singled 1 Grimm of ot course I I had bad batted out of ordet ordel but at the time no ito attention a was paid to the tho fact Then Raw RIl lines who ho should hate ha battel first mopped to the tho I plate and singled sending Grimm I Ito Ito to second I I In other w a Grimm and Raw Raw- Rawlings Raw lines lings hugs simply reversed their positions positions In the th batting battinA order Then I Gooch stepped to-th to plate Hadn Hada Had ft a ball been pitched to Gooch all ha ha e e been well but before any pitch was sins made to Gooch the team in the field realIzing a mIs- mIs mis take had been made mad In th the batting I order appealed to the umpire for fora tora n a ruling fori Who should b be called out Tho The umpire In charge charts was called upon to render a ruling on a play II that has hag never before come corn up In Inthe inthe Inthe the major leagues There was no precedent tor for him bins to follow noI I UMP Th The rule says that It a player bat I ITh out of order the mistake must mut bo be discos ered ened before a IL ball bail has been botn pitched to a succeeding I and an appeal Is made to the Um-j Um pine piro for a ii t ruling Grimm batted out of order but no appeal aa wan AA made and the pitch pitch- pitcher pitch 1 pitcher butI I er threw to who also sIngled 1 Then a decision was aSs re requested ne- ne quested re-I re The umpire a II trifle confused contused be- be be be calico of the strangeness of the hap hap- happening hap pening decided to call ill Raw Ra lings out permit Grimm to remain on onI I first and allow C och to bat batOn bat On thinking It over that evening It wa-s wa lI said ho decided that he lie had been In error that the he proper thing hadI I to ha hate done was to simply disregard genii gard lIngs Ra Raw lines and when he lie hit safely after arter Grimm had sIngled 1 that it would 1 have been correct r to hair bale ha called out Gooch who ho was the pia er who should have fOI 1 fol- fol fol followed lowed lo Grimm I eliminated Such a ruling would have elim dim dim- mated Ra lings entirely sent scat Grimm back to first and Gooch MAYBE cN C X N DECIDE I Since Sine then another angle has been raised I ISom I Some Som major league umpires umpire con con- contend con contend tend that the tho succeeding batsman can only b be the pla pIa er called forin for forI forin In tho lineup as a given glien to the urn urn- umpire um umpire I pire pine Other umpires contend that any batter who steps Into the box after another r batter becomes become the tho succeeding batsman I The Tho new angle ancle to the tho the play pillY Is s that It would have been proper to have simply called out and made Grimm bat over I It seems that who should bould b be call call- call cd ed d out depends entirely on who ho IS 13 regarded as the succeeding bats bats- batsman batsman man bats I Thre solution solutions have already been offered and major league umpires are umpires stIll arguing tho point being able to agree I IA I IA A decision from President Heyd Heyd- Heyd ler on th point would be InterestIng Interest Interest- Ing since it w establish a pre pre-I pro pro- pre precedent S Who ho w ho Is the th succeeding batsman is 19 the tho big biff I kane issue sue Who ho should be called out I is esca een c mor Important |
