Day 2...

mbyron · #11 (**permalink**) Wed May 27, 2009, 09:58am

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Originally Posted by RogersUmp

and if in the OP F5 had knocked it down, tried to pick it up, dropped it and then there was contact...still OBS because the initial attempt was over when he dropped the ball?

No, if the ball is within "a step and a reach," he's still in the act of fielding and still protected. Contact would then be interference.

The crucial difference is that in the OP the ball got past the fielder.