Talk:Appeal play

What is a legal appeal? If the definition is "An appeal is legal if the fielder ..." then that is inconsistent with the sentence on viable appeal. One guess is that "legal" in that supposed definition might be instead "successful". It's also possible that since it doesn't say "an appeal is legal if and only if the fielder..." that more conditions could be added about other types of legal appeals. In any case, the definition probably shouldn't appear to require that a fielder do something (the first case) and at the same time also be a condition that can be true even before a fielder has done that something (the second case).

[The viable sentences: "Umpires will only rule on legal appeals. A potential appeal is viable if the appeal is legal and the umpire knows that the runner has indeed committed an infraction and will be called out if the appeal is executed by a fielder."]Hozelda (talk) 16:42, 25 September 2017 (UTC) [ok, maybe the problem is the difference between an appeal being legal and an appeal being executed. a legal appeal doesn't mean it was executed.]