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Originally Posted by Andy
The direction I got from NUS members was that I, as the UIC, should have overturned the overturn and left the ball foul....
When I asked by what rule I could do that, I was given the answer that once a ball is called foul, we don't make it fair.
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IOW, s/he couldn't provide you with a valid response. IMO, it is a cop-out. We are not talking about something close to the line, not even remotely. And it ceases to become judgment when an umpire acknowledges that the batted ball did, by rule, qualify as a fair ball. Not much different than an umpire calling "foul on a batted ball that hits a base. The rule book specifically states this is a fair ball, no judgment involved.
Maybe this is because I was trained by people who were more interested in getting it right instead of looking for a way out.