base runner

We will now illustrate more particularly the manner in which the base-runner can be thus put out.

A wild pitch is a ball thrown by the pitcher out of the fair reach of the catcher, and on which a base-runner gains a base.

That is, a player occupying the second base, when there is no one on the first base, cannot force a base-runner off the third.

Beginning with the more mechanical features, the first qualification for a base-runner is the ability to start quickly.