Sounds like you made the correct call, but your response to the coach was incorrect. You don't have to judge the relative ease with which the fielder can catch a line drive. The infield fly rule only applies to fly balls. A line drive is not a fly ball.
I would have said, "Coach, for me to call the infield fly rule, there has to be a fly ball. That was a line drive."
Last edited by Smiley; Sat Apr 01, 2006 at 06:35pm.
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