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Originally Posted by umpjayfire
Bobby
I understand what you are saying and poorly worded is one thing but... that is HUGE leap from 'complete possession' to bobbling it out of play after a certain amount of time and bobbles....I know you were a professional umpire and will not argue with how you/they interpret what happened but I have 2 questions for you ...
1) if 'you/they' ruled only 1 run scores and R1 to 3rd and B/R to 2nd would you be reprimanded for that ruling?
2)what would you have ruled?
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it depends on how they judged the play. this is total speculation, but i think if a supervisor asked them what happened and they said that
a fair fly ball was deflected out of play...then they would have been incorrect in their placement of runners and it should have been score, 3B, 2B. if they said that
if the first deflection had fallen to the ground then there wouldn't have been any issue and the second deflection caused it to go out of play, then i think they are right in awarding it as time of deflection. i don't know if that answered your question or not.
i don't know what i would have ruled at the time it happened. seeing it now i would have the same thing as they had providing that the unwritten interpretation of the time of deflection rule is allowable.