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But what makes it a foul ball?
I agree no criteria has really been met to make it fair.. except, its definately not foul. If it were foul, it would be dead. Its a tweener, but not a foul ball.
A fielder making a play on a ball thats not foul (ie fair) is a legit play.. that would make it INT.
There are only two types of batted balls.
A fair ball
A foul ball (which is dead)
This ball rolled fair, by the way. But we wouldnt know that at the moment of INT.
In hindsight, and since we are in discussion of theory -- defense was disadvantaged by a crash on a play fair ball. A ball that settled fair.
A ball simply being temporarily over foul territory is not foul or dead. The criteria for foul is very specific.
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