2007-03-09 04:21:27 · 7 answers · asked by lost_vault_music 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
When the ball is at a base before a player. Specifically , when the ball is thrown to, or a defensive player has the ball & steps on the base before the offensive player it is a force out.
This applies equally at 1st , 2nd , 3rd , & home provided there is a runner who is behind them , "forcing" them to advance to the next base. Tagging the runner is not necessary provided the force has not been eliminated by a trailing runner being put out, in effect eliminating the force.
2007-03-09 04:28:19 · answer #1 · answered by SantaBud 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In baseball, a force is a situation when a baserunner is compelled (or forced) to vacate his time-of-pitch base--and thus try to advance to the next base--because the batter became a runner. A runner at first base is always forced to attempt to advance to second base when the batter becomes a runner. Runners at second or third base are forced only when all bases preceding their time-of-pitch base are occupied by other baserunners and the batter becomes a runner.
A forced runner's force base is the next base beyond his time-of-pitch base. Any attempt by fielders to put a forced runner out is called a force play. A forced runner is out (called a force out) when a fielder with the ball touches the runner's force base before the runner reaches that base. A forced runner also may be tagged out in the usual fashion as well; such a tag is still considered a force play if the tag is made before the runner reaches his force base. Any play on the batter-runner before he reaches first base is the same as a force play, though the rules technically do not include this in the definition of a force play.
A force on a runner is "removed" when the batter or a following runner is put out. This most often happens on fly outs--on such, the batter-runner is out, and the other runner(s) usually return to their time-of-pitch base because they are no longer forced to advance.
2007-03-09 12:31:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
With less than two outs, a ball that is batted in play may be thrown to a baseman covering the respective base in which the runner is forced to run to.
2007-03-11 00:54:12 · answer #3 · answered by bronxbloggers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a force out is when you have someone on base say first the ball is hit in the infield and they throw the runner out at second thats a force out cause the runner cant go back to first cause theres someone there already
2007-03-09 12:32:31 · answer #4 · answered by kizz4ever2006 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Player tags base before a runner, who is forced to that base!
2007-03-09 12:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by Wounded Duck 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you are in the stands and had a few too many to drink they will force you out of the stadium
2007-03-09 12:36:48 · answer #6 · answered by BOB H 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the ball arrives before the baserunner and the baserunner must advance due to no open bases behind him.
2007-03-13 04:35:44 · answer #7 · answered by skisram 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋