
Effectively Wild Episode 1875: Ten Men Out
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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A Cricketer's Foot Is Not on the Bag
There's been recent cricket precedent. It was that replay review caught players who had both their feet off the ground, just in the course of regular running. And according to a strict reading of the old rule, when both feet lost contact with the ground, you're considered to be goingo quot out of yourg nd and you could be put out. So they just deleted the provided that the batter has continued movement in the same direction clause. There wis something with a bouncing bat, also a corollary there, and it's the same sort of situation. They addressed that, they fixed that some years ago, and i think we could do the same here. I'm sort
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