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Originally Posted by rzrbkfan2004
Just say you have runners on 1st and 2nd Base with no outs. There is a pop up in the middle infield and the umpire calls the infield fly rule to be in effect.
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Batter's out, no matter what happens next.
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The fielder who was trying to catch the ball, misses it, for whatever reason, but doesn't touch it. Okay, now the runner on 2nd base is off of the base a couple of feet and when the ball hits the ground it takes a funny bounce and hits the runner who was originally on 2nd. Is this runner out?
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As SDS says, if the ball passed by/through the fielder (and no other fielder had a play) and struck the runner, the ball is live, and he is not out. Since the IFF call assumes that this fly ball was catchable 'with ordinary effort,' I
speculate that the dropped ball was "by/through" the fielder for purposes of this rule, and not far from his reach. HTBT prevails, of course. Its your hypothetical, so you tell us.