The ball was never caught. The fielder used his mitt (not sure which part as I was in RF) to bat the ball down. He definitely never closed his glove around the ball.
With this being a B-League softball game w/o an ump, the other captain and I ruled the batter was out and runners returned to first and second. It didn't really matter that we apparently blew the call and robbed our team of a DP as we got a pop-up for the last out of the inning on the very next pitch (and ended up winning 19-7). Thanks for the insight.
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