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This happened yesterday and i can honestly say i have no idea what the call should have been.
Bases Loaded two outs, batter hits a ball deep to left field, ball bounces near the fence, the left fielder juggles it and appears to hit the ball over the fence on his 2nd or third touch, the umpires gave the runner third as he was already going to second and they treated it like an overthrow and all runs scored. I spoke to the base umpire after the game and he said he felt the fielder intentionally swatted the ball over the fence in an attempt to get a ground rule double call but when i spoke to the fielder after the game he said the ball was over the fence and he tried grabbing it to keep it in but he couldn't get a handle on it and it fell over the fence. What should the ruling have been if he did intentionally hit it over? what should it be if he tried to bring it back in but failed?
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You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
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