This situation includes rare events such as dropping the ball before securing posession, juggling a catch, or tipping the ball from one glove into another.
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A catch is legal if the ball is finally held by any fielder, even though juggled, or held by another fielder before it touches the ground.
Runners may leave their bases the instant the first fielder touches the ball.
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A dependent statement may misrepresent other situations when the independent condition is not present. This valid point is made on behalf of 85% of the umpires who failed to connect "touch" within the proper independent statement. This dependent clause only makes sense when the independent statement is included within such a question. Thus, whoever wrote the BS question misled the majority of the umpires who chose the wrong initial independent condition.