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Originally Posted by Rich Ives
Make up you mind. In the OP you said:
The fielder (Span) was not transferring the ball, he was flipping it out of his glove
non-sequitur
For anyone who has played the game, flipping the ball to your bare hand is definitely an on purpose transfer attempt and thus a voluntary release.
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First, the OP was written rather hastily, immediately after viewing the replay a couple of times. The "flip" I referred to was actually Span trying to get control of the ball as it was squirting out of his glove very
involuntarily. I should have thought my words out more carefully knowing a cunning linguist and renown wordsmith like you would catch it.
Second, I have played and/or umpired this game my entire childhood and adult life, in thousands and thousands of games, and I pretty well know a voluntary release when I see one, and that was not one.