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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
Call whatever you like.
If the infielder glides through it smoothly and well-timed and catches the ball after scraping or tapping the bag, I have an out. If he's merely near the bag with each foot or either foot, and at no time during the play touches the bag, or if he touched the bag and the rhythm of the play is disturbed by a bad throw, which becomes the reason he is taken off the bag, then I don't have an out.
That's the way I learned it from some of its pioneers way before I ever even imagined I'd someday be an umpire.
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No worries. I was just interested in your interpretation, having never heard it before.
It matters not. We stopped giving the neighborhood play about five years ago.