No read the book. It has to do with what is considered proper advancement of the base runner. The runner may NOT start running before the ball is caught and the penalty is in fact that the runner is out.
You really believe that to be true or are you trolling?
Only if an appeal is made to the base that the runner left early from.
To suggest that the defense is not required to make a play on a runner that left a base without tagging up is incorrect.
The defense can double up the base runner by throwing to the base he left early from, tagging the runner out, or making an official appeal before the next pitch.
The runner is not "automatically" out simply because he did not tag up properly.
Nope. Not even close to being true.
even if he does not tag up, the runner is not automatically out... he is out if he advances to the next base without tagging up IF the fielder throws the ball to the original base, and the umpire agrees he did not tag up... and he is then called OUT!
That’s the softball rule not the baseball rule. In baseball the runner can leave before the catch and just has yo beat the ball back to the bag.
Runners almost never stay on the base and usually advance tentatively toward the next base when a pitch is thrown. They regularly return to their original base when a fly ball or line drive is caught.
You are wrong.
I did. Rule 7.08 Any runner is out when—...(d) He fails to retouch his base after a fair or foul ball is legally caught before he, or his base, is tagged by a fielder.
You have to either tag the runner (as happened) or tag his base, in this case first. Tagging second does nothing to the runner. All he has to do is return to first before he or first base is tagged to be safe. Runners lead off from the base to see if the ball will be caught all the time.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2013/official_baseball_rules.pdf.
“The runner may NOT start running before the ball is caught and the penalty is in fact that the runner is out.”
I have read the book many times, since I have umpired and coached for over 30 years. What you are saying is absolutely wrong.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2013/official_baseball_rules.pdf
7.08 Any runner is out when—
...
(d) He fails to retouch his base after a fair or foul ball is legally caught before he, or his base, is tagged by a fielder.
7.10 Any runner shall be called out, on appeal, when—
(a) After a fly ball is caught, he fails to retouch his original base before he or his original base is tagged
You might be picturing a play where the runner is tagging up but leaves before the ball is caught. He is not automatically out for doing this and he can think “I left too early” and try to make it back before they throw him out.
Awe, c’mon back Mr. Umpire! We won’t beat on ya anymore tonight for making up your very own goofy Baseball rules! (We see ya are still with us tonight!)
Again, not true. The runner may indeed start to run before the ball is caught. If he goes back to the base where he started, he is NOT out.
You are reading little league rules, and you are WRONG and bull headed for being so insistent. If the infielder had tagged first base, the base that Marte had occupied, he would have been out.