Talk:Base running
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This page was incorrectly titled "Baserunning". Although online sources can be found supporting either construction ("base runner" or "baserunner"), I used the following 3 criteria to make this change:
1. The official Major League Baseball rulebook exclusively uses "base runner".[1]
2. "Base runner" and "base running" outnumber "baserunner" and "baserunning" by a ratio of 9-to-2 in the 11 published books that I currently have access to. 3. Major League Baseball has been shifting away from using compound words that start with "base". For example, they replaced "baseline" with "base path" in several places in the 2012 rulebook revisions.[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dreslough (talk • contribs)
- ^ "Official Rules". MLB.com. Major League Baseball. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ Calcaterra, Craig. "MLB adopts the "Maddon Rule"". NBC Sports. NBC Sports. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
would THIS be original research?[edit]
(Except in, say, Little League, you can take a lead from your base at the time of the pitch.) UNWRITTEN RULE: if you are at 3rd base, stay on the foul side of the line if you take a lead, so a batted ball hitting you is a foul ball instead of putting you out. Carlm0404 (talk) 01:37, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
- It's not an unwritten rule. Coaches at every level teach this at every level because, as you say, the runner touching a batted ball is out only if the ball is fair. In foul territory, the runner is just another "unnatural object" where the contact results in the ball being declared foul. However, you should still provide a citation; the Wikipedia article is not a blog for coaches to describe each technique that they teach. In addition, the article doesn't yet mention taking a lead off a base at all. Spike-from-NH (talk) 23:46, 14 May 2022 (UTC)