Found a new way to end an open inning yesterday.
Playing in Tidewater, we were home team down by 10 so they did the flip flop top 7.
We had quite a few who had leg problems so when our rally started, we were using quite a few courtesy runners. We end up scoring 13 or 14 runs. We get another hit and when he reaches 1st, he asks for a courtesy runner. As soon as the courtesy runner reaches 1st, the other team questions that he had previously had a runner run for him and the ump banged him out.

The good news is that we did hold the lead and won the game.

Proper call..kudos to blue

I take it one cannot have two courtesy runners in the same inning? Or was it that the courtesy runner had already ran for someone else that inning?

Earlier in that inning, player "A" hit a double into the gap and was replaced by a courtesy runner. Later that same innng, player "A" entered the game as a courtesy runner for another player.

By stepping on 1st base, player "A" violated the courtesy runner rules and was declared out. Unfortunately for him, that was the final out of the game.

Tim

Tim, that wasn't the final out of the game.
We had flip flopped and were now the visiting team.
We went from 10 down to 3 up with the 13 runs scored in our open inning.
We then held the other team to no runs in their half and we won the game.
Not sure if you are confusing it with another game.

k man....Tim probably meant it was the final out for your at bat...and if his description of what happened was right then it was the correct call by the umpire

B.J. I understand what Tim meant but he wrote 'final out of the game' which to people reading this thread should have had a different connotation. I think I made that clear in my original post.

There was no argument from our side as we knew it was the correct call.
It might not have even been noticed other than for the fact that we sent 2 teams to this division and we were playing our other team, so we were all very familiar with each other.

This situation would probably never happen in a 5 run max inning but because of the open inning created confusion with runners being jockeyed in and out.

btw, if I am not mistaken Tim WAS the umpire.
nice job by the Tim and umpire crew last week

obtain read my previous post

sorry, that's obagain (spell check)