[jtur88]

For the Dogers Saturday night. Kemp is on first. Ethier hits a long fly to center, and Kemp thinks the ball might be caught. Ethier reaches first, and crosses the bag, but does not turn toward second, but runs down the foul line. After Ethier touches first, Kemp comes back to tag up and steps on first. At the moment Kemp's foot is on the bag retouching, is Ethier past him on the base paths, even though Kemp has not turned toward second? Once the ball is not caught, Ethier has reached first safely.

(They only showed the replay once---I think Kemp touched the bag, but he might not have. If he did, is Ethier out for being past him on the base path?)

In short, if a runner retouches a base that a following runner has already touched, and the following runner is not retreating or cannot retreat to a previous base, is that "passing a runner"?

Ned Yost came out and talked to the umpire, and may have been asking for Ethier to be called out, but did not make his case very forcefullly. Again, I'm not sure if Kemp actually retouched first.