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Originally Posted by NIump50
If there is another reason for calling it a ball please enlighten me.
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Because it is the “accepted practice” as I would call it. There are plenty of things in sports and life that, although they don’t jib with the rules, are the “accepted practice”.
A perfect example would be the ‘neighborhood play” at second base in MLB. According to the rules, the pivot man must be touching the base with the ball to get the out, but the “accepted practice” is that the pivot man just be in the area of second base with the ball to get the out. It is the same thing as the ball in the dirt. Sure, technically, it was probably a strike, but the “accepted practice” at the high school level, if not lower, and on up is that a pitch in the dirt or scooped just off the dirt is going to get called a ball.