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Originally Posted by fredhjr
I apologize for the haziness of the original post. This was a line drive hit to 3B, "caught" by the fielder. However, the impact of the ball was forceful enough to immediately cause the glove to come off the fielder's hand and land on the ground with the ball in it.
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Once the glove with the ball (and without the fielder's hand) in it touches the ground, a catch is no longer possible. The ball has touched an object on the ground, and was never controlled by a fielder.
If the glove-and-ball combination had instead popped into the air, it could still be caught by the same or another fielder.