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Originally Posted by Dave Reed
MLBUM 5.8 has a pretty extensive listing of circumstance involving balls deflected out of play.
My summary: TOT if a player intentionally deflects a batted or thrown ball out of play; or has complete control before the ball is dropped, deflected, or kicked OOP.
Otherwise, it is TOP.
Of course, the award is 2 bases.
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Right. Unfortunately, that's not what happened on the field. He decided that since the fielder touched the ball, it should be TOT.
I asked him whether he had judged that the fielder had intentionally flipped the ball up or whether he had control, and he said no. So I told him that it should have been TOP ("ground rule double").
He told me to look it up, 'cuz they had used the book on the field.
