Leaving the base early | Discuss Fastpitch Softball Community

As @EdLovrich said, it's not as easy to see as you might think when it is close at all due to everything else you also have to watch. Add to that, the girls who have one foot behind the base and use a rocker start and it's even harder. Sometimes you really need to see it more than once to be sure, and if they are smart they don't leave early more than once. Another factor that makes it difficult for the umpire is that if you hesitate to think about it at all it's pretty much too late to call it without appearing to have waited on the outcome of the play to make your call. It's supposed to be an immediate dead ball and if you don't call it that way it looks like you weren't sure of your call. It's a tough penalty to erase a baserunner, so I have to be certain she left early to call it. I DO call it, but I'll admit if I had instant replay for each runner I'd probably get 2 or 3 more per game in a high level game.

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The rule prevents a player from standing 10 yards into the outfield and timing his running start so he tags his base right as the ball is caught/touched - thus he cannot be appealed out, but he is already at a full speed run on the way home at the moment of the catch/touch.

And yes, I would expect an umpire to see that a runner was lining up behind the base as we are expected to see anything else...

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