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Originally Posted by MikeStrybel
Bob,
A foul is not foul until touched or it comes to a stop on foul ground. As this ball was touched and secured, as the result of an attempted bunt with two strikes, by rule it should be immediately dead. Obviously we have an issue of whether the foul third strike supersedes a foul catch. So far I haven't seen anything that I can use to call this a live ball. I hate these plays but know that it wouldn't be in there unless it happened to one of us and will again. Thanks.
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"Obviously we have an issue of whether the foul third strike supersedes a foul catch."
No, "we" don't. One of us is confusing "touched" with caught, they are not the same.
A ball that is in flight off the bat that is "caught" can never be foul.
It's a caught fly ball and caught fly balls are live.
A ball that was foul, can not be caught, because it either hit (beyond 1B-3B), settled, was touched (read booted), or hit something over foul territory.