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Idiot in the studio declares that physics make it impossible for a ball to pass the fence foul and land on the line.
I can tell you that I have witnessed, as a 3B umpire, a batted ball hit by a RH batter pass over the stands which begin more than 30' off the 3BL come back and just get inside the pole more than once (about a dozen times during a game). And that was with no wind in a minor league ball park. Granted, this was slow pitch, but I doubt "physics" knows the difference between the two. From what I have learned since, it all has to do with bat speed at contact.
In OKC, the wind was blowing out, so with a LH batter, once that ball clears the stands and concourse structures, it is not only possible, but quite probable that the wind caught and affected the flight of the ball.
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