Thread: Fair or foul?
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Old Wed Mar 08, 2006, 08:38am
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Quote:
Originally posted by BretMan
Whoa. Back-up a second.

bellsjc asked:

"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?"

To which mcrowder replied:

"Question in previous post: Depends on the ruleset."

And then, I asked:

"Mcrowder, which rule set are you infering would call this "foul"?

And then things branched off in several different directions...

Still haven't got an answer to that one.

Every rule set I'm aware of would call this a fair ball. Why does it matter "which rule set"? It's fair for all of them, isn't it?

[Edited by BretMan on Mar 7th, 2006 at 06:08 PM]
I was incorrect. It is fair in both rulesets. The difference in the rulesets would apply if the ball landed just short of 2B and rolled back foul - but if, as in the OP, it actually HIT 2B, it's fair. I was off on that.
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