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Originally posted by Dakota
For ASA, the ball must be legally caught and then dropped to be an intentionally dropped ball.
Guiding the ball to the ground, batting it to the ground with the glove, letting the ball bounce out of the glove, or intentionally not catching it is a legal play.
As described, this is neither a IF (because, as already noted, a line drive cannot be in IF) nor is it an intentionally dropped ball, because it was never legally caught.
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So, let me ask you: In the above situation (R1 & R2), if a linedrive is hit toward the 2nd baseman and she just allows the ball to hit her closed glove, causing the ball to fall to the ground ... you're saying, no matter how obvious it is that she intentional this may appear, it is not considered an "intentionally dropped" ball? Therefore, she can pick it up and get a double play?