Infield Fly Rule

[Steve M]

I suspect that if you wait until the ball is on the way down, you will see whether the individual play requires ordinary effort or not. And in taking another look at the post, just before submitting it, it looks like Steve has beat me to it.

Anyway, by waiting on the call, the fielder ability will show itself to be ordinary effort or something else. This will pretty much eliminate the question GSF is expecting from the coach "Now coach comes out and asks why it's an infield fly for them and not for us. You are honestly going to say to him they get the infield fly because they are better?" My answer will be something like "Coach, in my judgement, one of those plays took an ordinary effort and the other one required more than that."