Third strike foul tip, ball gets stuck, believe it or not under the catchers mask. I am under the impression that if the ball get trap in any part of the clothing or equipment it is not a fair catch. It is a dead ball and batter still has two strikes against him. The catcher did not know were the ball was and did not have his hand on the ball. If I am wrong I need to be told.

It wasn't caught. Not a foul tip. It's a foul ball.

Bob

First:

A foul tip, by defintion, is a batted ball that goes sharp and direct from the bat to the catcher's hand (glove) and is legally caught. (OBR 2.00)

This is NOT a foul tip.

Next, a pitch that lodges in the catcher's (or umpire's) mask or paraphenalia is dead and runners, if any advance one base. (OBR 5.09(g))

No bases right?
 

The pitch did not get lodged in the mask, the foul ball got lodged in the mask.

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Sorry. Brain melt down. I forgot half of what I read right after I read it. Can you say alzheimers?