[Gee]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gre144
[B]Runners on first and second with one out. Strange play in a middle school game. Infielders playing a few feet infront of their normal positions. The left fielder is playing where the short stop normally plays near the grass-dirt line that separates the infield with the outfield. Ball is hit in the air such that the only person who can make the routine catch is the left fielder who is positioned in the infield.

Do you call an infield fly even though the only fielder who could make the routine catch is the left fielder? Remember that no infielder could have made this catch since they were playing to far in.
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Technically this was not an infield fly. You said that the outfield stationed himself where the SS usually plays which was at the outside edge of the cutout that you believe seperates the infield from the outfield.

See OBR 1.04 which states:
"No. 3. The infield shall be a 90 foot square. The outfield shall be the area between two foul lines formed by extending two sides of the square, as in Diagram 1." So the outfielder did not station himself in the infield.

Since you also said that no infielder had a chance to catch the ball it couldn't be an infield fly. Black letter law, would you believe Gray. G.

[Edited by Gee on Oct 22nd, 2004 at 05:20 PM]