Fed Rule Book

[bob jenkins]

Originally posted by Jake80



That explaination makes sense to me. I had not quite pictured "on fair territory - beyond first or third base" that way. I agree that this situation would be rare but now I will know how to handle it. Thanks. Hmmm. Could be that I'm one of those third world umpires.

Right -- without any clarification, some would picture the phrase as meaning "behind a line between first and third," some as "outside the infield," and a (very) few as "beyond a 90' arc from the plate connecting first and third." FED clarifies which of those pictures we are to use.