Dale Scott

When he did and had just gone basically straight toward second base, that could have been a whole completely different thing.

First of all, he might have been tagged, but second of all, and then if he'd gone around, it would have been probably out of the baseline to avoid attack.

But what he did was smart and actually should be within the rules.

It's all within the rules, and that's just smart base running.

Well, yes.

Yeah.

To a point.

I mean, you can't – because he established it so early, about simultaneous when the fielder was receiving the baseball, but if he had waited a little bit longer and then veered, you're probably going to have out of the baseline because now he's much closer to the fielder where he could have made a –

An attempted tag and not just kind of a gesture, and then you're at jeopardy of being out of the baseline to avoid that tag.

But that was the key to this, is that he establishes his baseline.

And again, the base runner establishes that there's no line from first to second, and that's the baseline.

It's the runner to whatever bag he's going to.

That's his baseline.

And there's no rule that says you can't veer off.

I mean, you see it...

You know, a guy has an extra base hit, you know, you round or he'll, you know, to hit the bag quicker and, you know, go further or whatever.

There's no, you know, a lot of people think it's from point A to point B, and that's simply not it.

The only time there's a real point A to point B is from the 45-foot line to first base when you're running in the running lane.

That's a whole different show.

But what happened yesterday, the key to that play and him being legal is the fact that he established his baseline early, early enough so that the fielder had no choice.