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Worked with umpire last night who I thought had at least a few years experience. We were discussing the infield fly rule. He told me that on infield fly call, runner or runners on base must retouch their base before advancing to next base when the ball is not caught or is dropped. In other words, on infield fly, runner at second base takes three or four steps off 2B waiting for ball to come down. Ball is not caught or is dropped. The umpire I worked with said that runner at 2B has to go back and touch 2B before considering advancement to 3B. I thought that the runner could just take off for next base and not retouch base on a dropped infield fly (same as an uncaught or dropped fly ball to outfield). Please tell me that I am correct since that was my understanding of the rule during the entire high school season.
[Edited by Stair-Climber on Jun 16th, 2004 at 11:24 PM]
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Wed Jun 16, 2004, 10:18pm
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