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Originally posted by bellsjc
Now the question that needs to be asked is... Batter hits a line drive up the middle. The ball hits the front edge of second base and flies over the foul line between home and 3rd base where it rolls to a stop. Is this a fair or foul ball?
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Fair ball.
Largeone gave you one reason when he mentioned the ball hit the second base bag. If by some act of God the ball landed just in front of the second base bag with enough backspin to cause it to pass the foul line between home and third or home and first it would still be a fair ball. Second base is beyond both the first and third base bag.
Official Notes - Case Book - Comments... If a fly ball lands on or beyond first or third base and then bounces to foul territory, it is a fair hit. Clubs, increasingly, are erecting tall foul poles at the fence line with a wire netting extending along the side of the pole on fair territory above the fence to enable the umpires more accurately to judge fair and foul balls.
Tim.