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The baseball rules question brought to mind an unrelated incident in a Yankees game from some years ago. Carlton Fisk was catching, so it was either the Red Sox or the White Sox in the field.

With two runners on base--one was Bobby Meacham, and I think the other was Rick Cerone--Rickey Henderson smacked a double off the centerfield fence, a pretty good poke in Yankee Stadium. Somehow, though, both runners managed to get themselves tagged out at home. One of the tabloid headlines the next day read, "Fisk Plays Tag the Yankees."

In your scenario, it would be double, 8-(4/6)-2(assist)-2(D.A.B.R.)

With the bases loaded, Herman hit a one-out drive to deep center field. After bouncing off the wall, Hank DeBerry scored from third base. Chick Fewster, who started the play on first base, rounded second base heading for third. However, Dazzy Vance, a pitcher who’s ineptitude on the base paths shined bright in this infamous play, found himself locked between third base and home. O’Neil, coaching from third, saw that Herman was rounding second base as well as Fewster headed towards third, and suspecting that Babe might pass him resulting in an out, shouted “Back! Back!”

Vance, more suited behind the pitcher’s mound, mistook O’Neil’s screams to be directed at him rather than Herman, and thus hesitated between the bags, before retreating back to third. Fewster, who at this point stood on third legitimately looked around in confusion – both Vance and Herman slid into the bag from opposite base paths.

Herman, however, tells the story differently – “Now, I got the throw beat, and I slide into second. Safe, right? So, now, somebody hollers to Jimmy Cooney, the [Braves'] shortstop, and he throws home. Al Spohrer chases Vance back to third. Now, I go to third on the rundown and, naturally, I slide into third. Safe, right? Now, I was called out for passing Fewster, but Vance is on third and it’s his bag by the rules. Spohrer begins tagging everybody, but I’m already out. It’s like sentencing a dead man. Now, there are only two out, but Fewster wanders out to right field to get his glove and Doc Gautreau, the Braves’ second baseman, chases him and tags him out.”

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You've lost me. How did the runner get the ball?

For the sake of all fans of chess (and baseball) history, may your eyes be sharper than ever.

Well, he'd better get out of the neutral zone before he's called offsides and/or cross-checked headfirst into the boards.

If that should happen, he may find himself in zugzwang.

Perhaps I shouldn't say up in arms. But Detroiters' first instinct is to figure out some way to explain the fact instead of acknowledging it.

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