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Old Sun May 18, 2014, 05:36pm
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Originally Posted by tcannizzo View Post
This weekend at the College Club World Series, in Columbus, GA we had exactly that - tarp rollers down the left field fence.

Ground rules were a player can touch the tarp with any part of the body except the foot. Don't know if this is universal, or just at this complex, because the explanation offered was that they didn't want metal cleats tearing up the tarp.
That's correct and that's the purpose of the "tarp" rule. They don't want players stepping on the tarp with cleats.
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