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Well, I make the decision by determining whether the infielder can make the catch with normal effort. I have had pop-ups land between F1,F2 & F3 that none had a chance at catching with ordinary effort, so I did not rule IF. Of course, everyone else sees the pop-up land in the infield and insists that I have no idea what I'm doing out there. But I don't care, because I'm the umpire and getting big bucks to do this d;-)
As far as height, ASA's definition of a line drive requires the ball be hit "sharply and directly into the playing field." So if there was a hump in the batted ball and it was right to a player or the player seemed to have an easy play on it, I would probably rule IF.
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