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Old Mon Aug 26, 2013, 09:26pm
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Originally Posted by EsqUmp View Post
Doesn't saying "ball" cover it? That would, after all, be the definition of "ball."
It covers it in the same way as just calling a runner "safe" at first base even though the ball beat him by two steps and the first baseman pulled his foot. In both cases, you have a call and an extra piece of information that saves or at least redirects the followup.
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