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Old Sat Jul 05, 2008, 09:59am
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by NDblue
It's live and in play until when? Not at any softball field I know of but in baseball, there are some fences/walls that would be out of reach for a player to get to if said ball were perched on top. Then what?
To me, a ball is live until it becomes dead by rule.

What do you have in this play? Obviously, the players could have reached the ball. Even if the ball would be out of reach, why penalize the offense because the defence missed an opportunity to make the play?
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