What is ASA referring to?

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Originally posted by greymule
The following was added to POE #25 in the 2004 book (and the list of lettered items was reduced from 7 to 5). Does anybody know how this adds anything to what we already knew? How can the defensive player be on the other side of the fence?

"In the Slow Pitch game, any fair fly ball touched by a defensive player on either side of the fence that clears or has cleared the fence in fair territory, should be declared a four-base award and shall not be included in the total of over-the-fence home runs."

There was probably an argument that a ball which cleared the fence prior to being touched by a fielder should count against a team's HR total because it passed the vertical plane of the front of the fence.

This is just clarifying that if a fair batted ball is touched by a fielder prior to leaving the park in fair territory, it is a four-base award regardless of the position of the fielder or ball at the time of contact with the defender or his/her glove.

In last year's book, it only noted a ball touched by the fielder prior to going over the fence in fair territory.