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Originally posted by David Emerling
The question is not so much is the ball dead or not; more importantly, the defense will be demanding whether the umpire is properly ruling a "strike" for a batted ball that EVERYBODY will admit was fair and would have almost certainly resulted in an out.
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The rule reference you are looking for to declare a batted ball that is called FOUL is under 2.00 STRIKE. The umpire erred, but a batted ball verbally called FOUL is a strike and with 2 strikes would result in an OUT. [FED]