[USS Alaska]

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 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.

[Mears]

Yikes,this discussion was going on when I went to bed last night.

You are right,of course,you can start running before the ball is caught.

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