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Old Wed Aug 14, 2019, 08:53pm
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Originally Posted by RKBUmp View Post
Nfhs has a case play regarding an errant throw that hits a photographer outside a media area and the ball remains live. So, a photographer is most certainly a person not engaged in the game, and if an errant throw hitting them is not a dead ball then why on Earth would an errant throw hitting on on deck batter be dead?
That was part of what changed my mind on Manny's sitch. I was going to post that media is authorized on-field...etc....that said, as of this year I'm pretty sure Fed changed media areas to dead-ball territory, and thus a media member who touches the ball would make the ball dead.
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