Wow, this discussion was so convoluted; I've never seen so many different things talked about in 15 posts. Foul ground balls, foul fly balls, detached equipment, bats hitting balls a second time...
Is it pretty much a done deal that the situation in the OP was nothing but a foul ball?
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