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Originally Posted by refiator
This is a quick recap of my game...
Bottom 7th, visitors up by 1. Home team loads the bases with no outs. I am the plate umpire. Batter swings and hits a swinging bunt pop that lands between the pitcher and first baseman. Even a lunging dive from the first baseman would have come up several feet short of a catch.... First baseman gets to the rolling ball and goes home (out 1)...catcher to third (out two), third baseman to second (out three!). Of course, the entire home team runs on the field yelling at us for not calling the infield fly, saying that it doesn't matter that the pop was not catchable. I love this game!
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say to the coach: "In my judgement, it was not a catchable ball by any infielder with ordinary effort."
and then leave the field.
besides, I don't think you can really have an IFF on a bunt.