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I know in Fed, once an umpire yells foul, the ball must be a foul ball and they cannot change it to a fair ball. Is the same true in OBR?

Thanks

If no one reacted to an OBR umpire calling foul you can keep the ball alive. In FED the only foul call you can ignore is if it was a fair HR and the foul call was an error.

UmpJim:

Do you have a NFHS Casebook Play?

MTD, Sr.

No caseplay. But there is an interp. Some of the 2005 interps have changed but I don't think this one has:

SITUATION 4: With the bases empty, the batter hits a long fly ball down the left-field line that easily goes over the outfield fence. With the sun in his eyes, the plate umpire initially declares “Foul Ball,” but then realizes he made a mistake, that the ball did indeed go over the fence in flight in fair territory. RULING: The umpire may reverse his call and declare a home run. The ball is dead because it left the field by going over the fence in flight, not because the umpire declared, “Foul Ball.” (10-2-1l, 5-1-1f-4, 8-3-3a)

UmpJim:

Thanks. Is this Intepretation from 2004 or 2005?

MTD, Sr.