Everything about Tag Up totally explained
In
baseball, to
tag up is to retouch or remain on the runner's
time-of-pitch base until (after) the ball is first touched by a
fielder. A runner must, by rule,
tag up only when a batted ball is touched by a fielder. After a legal tag up, even if the ball was caught in
foul territory, runners are free to attempt to advance. On long fly ball outs, runners can often gain a base; when a runner scores by these means, this is called a
sacrifice fly. On short fly balls, runners seldom attempt to advance after tagging up.
After a caught
fly ball, if a fielder with the ball can appeal that the runner didn't retouch his time of pitch base after the ball was touched by a fielder by touching the runner or the runner's time-of-pitch base before he retouches the base, the runner is
out. If the umpire agrees that the runner didn't retouch after the ball was touched by a fielder, the umpire will call the runner out, regardless of what the runner had done after the ball is in play. This is a timing play, not a force play. All runs which score before the appeal will count.
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