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chapmaja Mon Aug 11, 2014 09:14am

In practical terms, it would be an error. In the league world of scoring, it is a home run, and the batter should be sending a thank you card to the fielder.

There was a similar situation a couple years ago in a state playoff high school softball game.

High fly ball to deep center. Fielder goes back and is standing at the fence. Ball comes down and hits her glove and goes over the fence. The umpire correctly gives the B-R a 4 base award. The coach nearly gets tossed arguing it should be a ground ruled double because it did not clear the fence in flight. She lost the argument, but to this day maintains the play should have been a G-R double.

CT1 Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:19am

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Originally Posted by chapmaja (Post 938836)
High fly ball to deep center. Fielder goes back and is standing at the fence. Ball comes down and hits her glove and goes over the fence. The umpire correctly gives the B-R a 4 base award. The coach nearly gets tossed arguing it should be a ground ruled double because it did not clear the fence in flight. She lost the argument, but to this day maintains the play should have been a G-R double.

What would the coach have been arguing for if the LF had come over & caught the ball before it hit the ground? smh

chapmaja Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:54pm

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Originally Posted by CT1 (Post 938894)
What would the coach have been arguing for if the LF had come over & caught the ball before it hit the ground? smh

Knowing her, something.


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