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Originally posted by Ref Ump Welsch
One warning is the players may act dumb and need clarification that the fence extended becomes the line.
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The way to play this, though, is to encourage whoever makes the ground rules to include the clause that if the player makes a play on the ball, even in this extended dead ball area, then the ball will remain live. If the player throws their hands up to signal that the ball has entered dead ball territory, that gives the umps time to verify that it has entered DBT and to rule accordingly.