third strike foul tip caught or not...

jesmael · #1 (**permalink**) Tue Jul 02, 2002, 10:12pm

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.

bluezebra · #2 (**permalink**) Tue Jul 02, 2002, 10:59pm

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

Bob

GarthB · #3 (**permalink**) Tue Jul 02, 2002, 11:00pm

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))

joemoore · #4 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 04, 2002, 10:07pm

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

GarthB · #5 (**permalink**) Thu Jul 04, 2002, 11:14pm

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

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