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A follow-up to the question about the NSA rule on "intentionally dropped" balls:
After an email exchange with the NSA National Director of Umpires, he has confirmed that under their rules a ball that is allowed to drop untouched by a fielder can be ruled as an "intentionally dropped" ball.
This makes the NSA ruling unique in all of the baseball and softball world, as all other rule sets I've researched require there to be actual contact with the ball by the fielder for an intentional drop to be ruled.
We now have three separate and distict interpretations, depending on the rule set, to cover this (admittedly rare) play.
Just chalk it up to another one of those rule differences that will confound the coaches, baffle the players and, possibly, trip up an umpire who works multiple associations.
Last edited by BretMan; Thu Oct 02, 2008 at 09:31am.
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