appeal play

noun

Baseball. an appeal by the team in the field to the umpire regarding a possible base-running infraction, such as failure to touch a base or leaving it to score before a fly is caught, that is considered only when the defending team tags the runner or base in question before making the appeal.

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Mr. Licht also said the show was designed to be a “mass appeal play,” but in its first few months on the air, it has been anything but.

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Mr. Licht called the revamped show “a mass appeal play.”

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If the third out is made during a play in which an appeal play is sustained on another runner, the appeal play decision takes precedence in determining the out.

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Kiermaier was called out at third base on an appeal play after Gurriel made a nifty running catch in left on Díaz’s third-inning liner.

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Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was ejected in the eighth inning by first-base umpire Angel Hernandez after Hernandez called a strike on an appeal play with Chris Taylor at the plate.

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