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Well,
Golly Dave, I thought since you are a "super rat" you would know and understand all the rules.
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Unless I am reading your commments incorrectly here ya go:
For the 2005 season FED wrote a rule to cover poorly trained umpires in making "gross errors" in terms of calling balls "FOUL" too soon . . .
The rule was poorly written.
As you are aware even if a foul ball was hit five steps to the right of first base and if the umpire called it "FOUL" prematurely the ball was immedaitely dead and simply a strike was added (with two strikes it was treated simply as a foul ball not caught)and the ball could not be caught for an out.
With the spring interpretations it was made clear that ONLY a ball that left the field of play (i.e. a home run) would not be decreed a "foul ball." The FED logic behind this was that the ball leaving the field of play by the home run is what made the ball dead NOT the inadvertent call.
Now this year's change attempts to correct a poorly written rule.
It seems quite clear what they are attempting to do:
FED now wants only a ball that touches the ground and inadvertantly called foul to become dead. They recognize that they had written a poor rule. Now what they have done is just made it consistent with killing the ball only when there would be no chance of the catch.
So in answer . . . if it doesn't hit the ground it can now be caught for the out.
I am certainly confused how you find this confusing as it seems quite clear in the orginal error made by FED and this years correction of that error.
Tee
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