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Why do you think that coaches teach their baserunner on 3B to lead off in FOUL territory? If they get hit there, it's a foul ball...
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I can't find anything about the runner or BR being out after contact with a non-fly batted ball in foul territory. Maybe I'm missing something...
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As after my visit to the orthopedic... I stand corrected.
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You all can call it a foul ball, me I'm calling the out.
Well, that should be the rule. But is it the rule? It should be that no run can score on a play in which the batter hits a popup and then deliberately clotheslines F3 to prevent a double play. But the rule says otherwise. (This one goes to the top of my list of idiotic rules.) It should be that an advantageous fourth out on a runner who did not score can nullify a run. But the rule says otherwise. I'm sure people can think of many other should be's in ASA and other codes. But if there's a rule or case play that covers the situation specifically, you have to hold your nose and follow it. (And is everybody certain that a runner can legally pick up a ball that's two inches foul and clearly rolling fair?)
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I assume that it is being ruled foul because it touched an offensive player while over foul territory. But just before that, it wasn't foul yet (it hadn't settled on foul territory, nor had it bounded past 1B over foul territory).
I can see validity in both sides of this point, but if I think the ball had a reasonable chance of rolling fair, and that the defense had a reasonable chance at an out, I feel compelled to rule interference. Edit: But I also have to be reasonably confident that the act of the BR was intentional. |
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With that said, I do think it should be interference, but until I am given the latitude to call it interfernence, I will be calling it a foul ball.
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I understand the sense of "justice" here, but my issue with the interference ruling is I can find no rule that defines contact with a batted ground ball over foul territory by a runner as anything other than a foul ball. Intent does not matter.
Contact with the runner makes the ball by definition foul.
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Your right the ball will be foul, and the batter runner will be out! |
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