Thread: Ball In Dirt
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Old Thu Apr 20, 2006, 08:22pm
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Originally Posted by bossman72
Speaking of pitch in the dirt...


Ball slips from pitcher's hand as he delivers. Ball is rolling towards the plate and appears to have enough to reach the plate. Catcher runs out and grabs the ball about 10 ft in front of home and guns out the stealing R2 at third. Do you let this go, or could you technically call catcher's interference on this?
Let me have a try at this...without my rulebook handy, but here goes anyway:

FED ball - I have a balk. Pitched ball that did not cross the foul lines would be the same a dropping the ball while on the rubber. I call a dead ball. Runner gets third anyway
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