Clarification

[David B]

Preparing for rules session last night and came across the intentional drop by an infielder.

For some reason I can't seem to make sense from the FED book.

8-4-1c - his fair fly, fair line drive or fair bunt in flight is intentionally dropped by an infielder with at least first base occupeid and before there are two outs.

Ruling is ball is dead, BR is out and runners return.

Okay that makes sense as we want to prevent the DP by the defense.

Then I read the next section and it confuses me.

8-4-1c1 - in this situation the batter is not out if the infielder permits the fair fly, fair line drive or fair bunt in flight to drop untouched to the ground, except when the infield fly rule applies.


This seems like a contradiction. With infield fly the batter it out, but is this saying if the defense doesn't touch the ball we can't have an intentional drop?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
David