Law 11: Appeal Plays

A runner who fails to retouch after a fly ball is caught is out on appeal when the fielder tags him or the base.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.1 · applied

No runner may return to touch a missed base after a following runner has scored.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.3 · applied

With the ball dead, a runner may not return to a missed base once he has touched a base beyond it; on appeal he is out.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.4 · applied

A runner who starts from behind his base to gain a running start, on a pitch or a tag-up, is out on appeal.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.5 · applied

An appeal must be made before the next pitch or any play or attempted play.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.6 · recall

If the play ended the half-inning, the appeal must come before the defence has left the field: pitcher and infielders out of fair territory.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.6 · applied

With two out, an appeal that makes the third out wipes out the run of that runner and any following runners.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.10 · applied

He must touch second on the way; cutting inside it leaves him open to an appeal at second.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.2 · recall

A live-ball appeal: the ball goes back to the missed base and the fielder tags it or the runner.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.7.1 · applied

A runner who fails to touch each base in order is out when he or the missed base is tagged on appeal.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.2 · applied

With a dead ball the pitcher takes the ball and the rubber; after 'Play' he may step off and throw to the base for the appeal.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.7.2 · recall

An appeal is not a play or an attempted play; the exception is a balk by the pitcher during the appeal attempt.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.8 · recall

The defence gets only one chance; if it errs on its first appeal or a runner advances, it loses the right to appeal any runner.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.9 · applied

With more than one runner involved, the defence must declare which one it appeals; on the wrong runner the umpire signals safe.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.11 · recall

It is not a balk for a pitcher on the rubber to throw to an unoccupied base to make an appeal.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.14 · recall

Unless two are out, a following runner's status is not affected by a preceding runner's failure to touch a base.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.2 · recall

An appeal has to be clearly intended, by word or by an act that unmistakably indicates it; stepping on the base by chance is not one.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.14 · applied

Ball to the pitcher, pitcher to the rubber, 'Play', and only then the throw.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.7.2 · recall

If the offence starts a play before the next pitch, the defence does not lose its right to appeal under WBSC rules.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.10 · applied

Stepping back off the rubber first is what keeps it from being a balk and makes it a proper appeal.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Rule 11.1.7.2 · applied