Infield fly vs. an intentionally dropped ball

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Originally posted by Dakota

There you go again - expecting concise, tightly written English from the rules writers! Silly man.

It is probably written like that because some putz coach talked an umpire into changing a ruling by arguing, "But, Blue, the rule says it applies with a runner on 1st. Well, in our play, there was a runner on 1st and 2nd and 3rd, so the rule must not apply to this play".

As much as you like to scoff at the wording of some of these rules, much of it comes about in an effort to diminish the affect of stupidity on the game.