Play on or dead ball

[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by BretMan

I'm not surprised that nobody complained. After all, everybody "knows" that anytime a runner gets hit by the ball, the runner is out...right? Well, we umpires know that's not right. I've had some real blowups when the ball did pass a fielder, then hit a runner, and I didn't call her out. Because, everybody knows...

Doesn't FED consider "past the fielder(s)" by drawing a straight line between the two adjacent fielders? On this play you'd draw a line from F3 to F4. If the ball was behind that line, then it was past the fielder(s).

"Doesn't FED consider "past the fielder(s)" by drawing a straight line between the two adjacent fielders?"

This is what I am really wondering. I have never gotten a good explanation of this. Drawing a line would make sense on a play like this. Based on where those two defenders were located, I would say it could have gone either way.

The way the same was going, I am calling the out because we might not get another for awhile.