Thread: tag play
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Old Wed Jul 28, 2010, 02:16pm
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I guess what you're calling for here then is instant replay and cameras in every glove. It is impossible to determine exactly what instant the ball became even the slightest bit loose. The fielder must control the ball WHEN the tag is made... Even that description is not an instant in time - a tag takes SOME time, even if short. If the ball spurts out immediately after a tag, the assumption is that it was not secure when the tag is made. As others have said - it's judgement, and there's no way to determine with 100% accuracy whether the ball was completely secured at the moment of the tag - so we have to go with what we see.

I have safe in the play in question as well, even in slow-mo.
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