[mytreds]

Originally Posted by kriscolic

This just occurred to me, and, honestly, I'm not sure if this is accurate or not, so please bear with me...

A player begins an at bat as a base runner, the ball is put into play, there is a base running decision to be made concerning that base runner, I may or may not be given control over that base runner's decision.

A player begins an at bat as the batter, he gets a hit, I am not given control over the batter's (now the base runner's) subsequent decisions.

Do I have that right? In other words, when a batter gets a hit, are his subsequent base running decisions never up to me? I having trouble thinking of a counter example, but I haven't really been paying attention.

If you have control over base running, you will be given the decision to advance the lead running only. The decision happens when the play will be close one way or another. You will not get decisions for standard advancement that require no close calls.