Infield Fly Rule Question???

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Originally Posted by rzrbkfan2004

Just say you have runners on 1st and 2nd Base with no outs. There is a pop up in the middle infield and the umpire calls the infield fly rule to be in effect.

Batter's out, no matter what happens next.

The fielder who was trying to catch the ball, misses it, for whatever reason, but doesn't touch it. Okay, now the runner on 2nd base is off of the base a couple of feet and when the ball hits the ground it takes a funny bounce and hits the runner who was originally on 2nd. Is this runner out?

As SDS says, if the ball passed by/through the fielder (and no other fielder had a play) and struck the runner, the ball is live, and he is not out. Since the IFF call assumes that this fly ball was catchable 'with ordinary effort,' I speculate that the dropped ball was "by/through" the fielder for purposes of this rule, and not far from his reach. HTBT prevails, of course. Its your hypothetical, so you tell us.