Dale Scott

How you guys doing?

Yeah, yeah.

It does look weird, but what happened on that particular play was what he did was legal, and the umpires got it right.

But yes, I can see where, especially if you're an Orioles fan, it probably looks a little weird.

Right.

Well, the baserunner makes his own baseline, and he really actually was very smart in what he did.

He saw what was happening with the ground ball, and he started to veer off to his right even almost before it was fielded, or right about the same time.

That establishes his baseline.

So the rule is, out of the baseline rule, basically, is just you're out if you

leave your baseline to avoid a tag.

So you need to have an attempted tag and you need to leave the baseline, which is basically three feet.

And as a rule of thumb, it's usually for a fielder, a step and a reach.

would be an attempted tag and if you were in the baseline and avoided that, what Fielder did.

But that's not what happened here in this.

In fact, he almost didn't even make an attempted tag.

And the reason he didn't is because the base runner had already established his baseline toward right field, so to speak,

uh, from the fielder.

And, you know, obviously he saw that, uh, if I try to continue to tag this, I'm going to, I'm not going to get the out of first.

And, um, he, he, he gestured, but that's not an attempted tag, uh, what he did.

So, um, now if he had not established his, uh, baseline, uh,