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trash heap

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Bizarre thing almost happened....
« on: September 03, 2004, 01:43:52 PM »
While bowling league tonight the a person in the next lane over threw their first ball. When the ball hit the pins, the head pin bounced off the wall and was laying in front of the seven pin which was still standing. Two other pins hit the head pin and causes it to stand back up. It stood there a second, and then finally fell. If the pin would have remained standing, should it have been removed?
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nd300

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Re: Bizarre thing almost happened....
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2004, 10:09:04 PM »
I do believe that any pin standing---even if previously knocked down and somehow made to stand back up-----is still counted as standing and not knocked down when the sweep comes down and the pinfall is counted for scoring purposes.
 I could be wrong and if I am then I apologize.
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STNCLD25

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Re: Bizarre thing almost happened....
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2004, 10:21:53 PM »
if it stayed back up it would have to stay up. doesn't matter if it went down if it stood back up then it would have to stay that way.
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Re: Bizarre thing almost happened....
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2004, 10:37:39 PM »
You have to shoot it where it stands unless the rack knocks it down, then it must be reset to it's original position.   Don't have the rule book in front of me but I'm positive that's the rule.


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JohnP

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Re: Bizarre thing almost happened....
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2004, 10:42:20 PM »
db -- You're right on the rule.  But I've got another question that I had never thought about until this topic came up.  What if the pinsetter knocks the pin (that was WAY off spot) down and no one knows what pin it was initially?  Do you guess at it?  --  JohnP
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Re: Bizarre thing almost happened....
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2004, 04:42:08 PM »
Way back when I was a junior, I was the anchor bowler in the last week of bowling.  I needed a spare and three pins in the tenth to win the game which would give us first place for the season.

I threw the ball a tad high and I expected a four pin leave for an easy spare.  Sure enough, the four pin was standing, but...a pin laying in the channel was struck by another pin.  The pin in the channel flew up and stood when it landed...right in the six pin spot.  I couldn't convert the 4-6 split and we lost the league.


In the rule book, its: "Rule 7b. Pins that rebound and stand on the lane must be counted as standing pins."

I don't think JohnP's question is answered in the rule book.  I'd vote that you should spot the pin to the closest pin to the ending location.
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Re: Bizarre thing almost happened....
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2004, 05:14:40 PM »
That's a good question JohnP. I would think if the pinsetter knocked it down and nobody was really sure which pin it was originally, that it would have to be spotted as close to where it fell as possible.
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