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Originally Posted by yawetag
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't 100% correct. If a fielder has clear possession of the ball when the tag is made, but the ball is dropped immediately after the tag, then it's not a tag. However, reading JEA, the status of the ball at the time the runner was touched makes it a tag.
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In OBR the basic concept is that if the
force of making the tag caused the ball to come loose then it wasn't held firmly/securely, thus no tag.
What Evans is trying to say is that Varitek made a valid tag because it wasn't the force of the tag itself that caused the ball to come loose.