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Originally posted by tzme415
Now I'm confused, but I don't have my rule book so maybe its just from reading these two together and not having the full definitions in front of me. This would imply that all foul balls caught by the catcher directly from the bat to hand or glove/mitt are Foul Tips, even if the ball goes 50 feet in the air. Therefore the batter would not be out if this was on the first or second strike. This sounds just plain silly to me, so I must be missing something.
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What you're missing is what is meant by "directly." 50 feet in the air is not "directly". "Directly" means more like "straight back." NFHS training on this same rule change last year was that if the umpire observed a "perceptible arc" in the path of the batted ball, that it was NOT a foul tip. Certainly, you would agree that a towering pop up has a perceptible arc!