Runner on base out when hit?

[akalsey]

Yes, I understand that. My point was that it appeared fair to the casual observer, thus my placement of the word fair in quotes in the second post on the subject. The ball was bouncing down the line and hit a runner standing at that line.

The word fair was intended as sarcasm. I suppose my original post should have read...

I took my sons to a AAA game today and saw R3 get hit with a "fair" ball in foul territory.

Notice the word fair is in quotation marks to denote sarcasm.