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Originally Posted by cal9323
I can tell you 100% that if he did not touch the ball there is NO WAY that ball would have gone under the fence.
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Let me give you scenario:
Bases loaded with two outs. A right handed batter hits a smash down the first base line. The fair batted ball bounces up and hits the first baseman on the shoulder and bounces over the dugout. Regardless of the fact that the ball hit the defender or the defender touched the ball this is a ground rule double.
Anytime a fair batted ball goes in to dead ball territory under its own momentum and as long as the act was not intentional you have a ground rule double. The exception to this would be if a fair batted fly ball goes off of a defender glove and over the home run fence fair you would have a four base error which would not count against the home run count.
From the way I read the OP this is pretty much the same play I described at the top of this post.