Ball lodged in glove: FED interpretation

[umpyre007]

Originally posted by bob jenkins
It strikes me that the FED could eliminate much of the confusion, and "safety" red herrings if they'd remove the "lodged in a glove" rule and use the "displaced equipment" rule instead. Once the player removes the glove with the ball in it during playing action, the thrown ball is touched by displaced equipment -- award two bases.

All the outs in WCB's plays stand, because the glove wasn't displaced.

C'mon BJ... you're better than that. There is no way the FEDs will go this way. Surely you haven't forgotten about Jim Abbott already? If your suggestion was made the FED rule then Abbott would have been guilty each and every time he "displaced" his glove to the opposite hand, pulled the ball out of the "displaced" glove and then threw it to a base for a play after fielding the batted ball with his "undisplaced" glove. He DID have a HS, college and MLB career and no one remotely suggested that he was doing anything wrong. And, this is NOT third world.

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