Just need a little help

FrankF44 · #1 (**permalink**) Sun Oct 21, 2001, 10:59pm

My roomate, (who has played baseball all his life), and I made a friendly bet concerning fair and foul balls which goes as follows; I say if a bouncing ball is hit and lands inside fair territory in the infield and then bounces past, or over, either 1st or 3rd base while still in fair territory but lands in foul territory, (before it touches in fair but after it passes either bag) is still a fair ball. He says it's foul. Can anyone help me out there?

[Edited by FrankF44 on Oct 22nd, 2001 at 02:56 AM]

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. · #2 (**permalink**) Sun Oct 21, 2001, 11:20pm

Fair ball.

JJ · #3 (**permalink**) Mon Oct 22, 2001, 07:23am

Fair Ball... was it "organized" baseball with real umpires?
lol.

GBA

Bfair · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Oct 22, 2001, 07:40am

If you watched the last game of the ALCS last night when Martinez pulled one over third base and it was called foul...............
it will show your statement to be wrong.

The correct statement is that it must be JUDGED to have gone over the base fair................
then it's fair, even if it lands foul behind the base.

Even if it goes over the base fair, if the ump's call is foul, then it's foul.........LOL.
IMO, the foul call on Martinez' batted ball last was rather questionable---although questioning it would have served little purpose....

Just my opinion,

Freix

devilsadvocate · #5 (**permalink**) Mon Oct 22, 2001, 08:53am

You've got your answer (fair ball). The problem will probably be convincing your friend that, even with all his years of experience, he is incorrect.

Go to mlb.com and check out the definitions of fair/foul, and have them ready for your friend.

Skahtboi · #6 (**permalink**) Mon Oct 22, 2001, 04:43pm

Freix:

You know...in my mind that hit should still should have been ruled fair. It sure appeared to bound over third base, didn't it.

Yes Frank, the one that you described should be "judged" to be a fair ball.

Scott

umpirefour · #7 (**permalink**) Mon Oct 22, 2001, 09:24pm

remember it is where the ball is at the time it is judged to be over the bagnot where it ends up.

bluezebra · #8 (**permalink**) Tue Oct 23, 2001, 01:53am

"remember it is where the ball is at the time it is judged to be over the bagnot where it ends up."

When the ball goes over the bag, it's a fair ball, PERIOD.

Bob

bluezebra · #9 (**permalink**) Wed Oct 24, 2001, 01:08am

Jim:

The original post made reference to a "bouncing ball", not a ball in flight.

Bob