2018 USA Umpire Exam

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Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve

the ball remains live and assumed playable until the umpire confirms the status as unplayable.

Umpires will understand this verbiage; most players and coaches won't. I dislike the need for the pregame conversation about putting hands up and not playing on a ball out of play, but like Cecil, I usually add the tidbit that a player putting their hands up doesn't kill the play. It only tells the officials, who may be 150+ feet away from dead-ball line, that a player thinks it went out.