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Show If there is a runner on first, and i the batter hits a home run. and the runner on flint fails to touch third Ion his way to the plate, docs that lu uiy way affect tho status of tho batsman? ' ' " The failure of a preceding runner i to touch a ba.se. and Is declared out for ,o doing. In no way uffects the status !of a succeeding runvet. i However, if there were two out in jsuch a case, the base runner would not i,e credited with a home run, since .It is impossible t core a run ahead of a runner who is retired for the .third out. oo |