Dead ball or play on?

[thumpferee]

Originally posted by largeone59
It was on a pitch. The ball got stuck about face-high to the catcher. "Easily gets it out" meant that he did not have to struggle with it one bit, just took it out of the fence.

If we call it dead, do we have a 1 base award along with this?

Yes!

I agree the ball should have been called dead immediately. You had direct knowledge that the ball was indeed lodged.

On plays in the outfield for example, the fielder plays the ball even though it may have been lodged under the fence, the ball would remain in play. The same for the catcher if you could not see that the ball was lodged and he retrieved it with, as cb said, "no more effort than if the fence wasn't folded/creased there at all".