Thread: Fair or foul?
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Old Tue Mar 07, 2006, 03:40pm
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Originally posted by PWL
I could be incorrect about it touching 2B. However, the ball can bounce by the cut of the outfield by 2B and roll into foul territory just before it goes past 1B. It is a foul ball. [/B]
No no no no no no no.

Forget the bases themselves ... once the ball touches fair territory beyond 1st or 3rd (the definition of "beyond" differs between OBR and FED, but the principle is the same), it is a fair ball, even if it rolls untouched back across the foul line between 1B or 3B and home.
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