[Justme]

At tonight’s HS association meeting we varsity umpires were discussing some situations that we have seen during our scrimmages. A couple of the guys, one a current college umpire & the other a pro-school grad, described a situation they had the other day and asked “what would you call?” It’s difficult for me to imagine this happening but they assured us that it did.

Situation: Fly ball lands between first & second almost in the grass, no IFF. It lands with so much spin, or hits something, that the ball comes back toward the infield and exits fair territory between home and 1B settling foul. The ball was not touched. The college ump was working the plate and called it foul. The pro-schooled ump thought it should have been called fair but didn’t indicate so. Neither coach argued the foul call.

Our group was split with fair/foul. I argued on the side of fair because the ball went beyond 1st & 3rd before it landed in fair territory. The fact that it doubled back and then went foul should be handled just like a ball which is hit down the line past either 1st or 3rd lands fair then rolls foul.

What would you call it?