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bluezebra58 · #1 (**permalink**) Sun Jan 21, 2007, 02:49pm

As i said in my last post, I've been unable to work the last few years, so i'm trying to get back to speed. This question is giving me trouble. It's a t/f. "R1 is on 2nd base and R2 is on 1st base with no outs when B3 hits an infield fly. The umpire properly calls and infield fly. The ball falls untouched to the ground and strikes B3 who is running in fair territory about 20 feet from 1st base. This is a double play." Thanks!

greymule · #2 (**permalink**) Sun Jan 21, 2007, 06:59pm

What code is this, and do they give the answer as it is a double-play, or is this just the statement you have to judge as T or F?

I think ASA has this as a case play, and it's just one out (the BR). Of course, if the ball hit a runner off the base, the runner would be out, too.

CecilOne · #3 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 22, 2007, 08:46am

Or, if it looked like R1 or R2 was a possible out and the interference was judged deliberate? ?

greymule · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 22, 2007, 09:38am

Or, if it looked like R1 or R2 was a possible out and the interference was judged deliberate? ?

Yes, then definitely the runner closest to home out in ASA and Fed.

bluezebra58 · #5 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 22, 2007, 07:45pm

Yes its fed ball.This is the exact statement so they just want t/f as it reads.

AtlUmpSteve · #6 (**permalink**) Mon Jan 22, 2007, 08:50pm

Maybe I'm seeing something different than all of you, but it seems pretty straight forward, and "true" to me. Batter is out on the infield fly, and R2 is out on interference with a batted ball which has not passed (assumably) an infielder (F4) with an opportunity to make a play on that batted ball (remember, if R2 is about 20 feet from 1B, than one should be able to assume a high school age infielder can field that ball after it has hung in the air long enough to be judged an infield fly). R2 has no protection from interfering with an infield fly, caught or not; and apparently did. Two outs.

The ASA case play exception relates to a runner who stays on the base; that runner cannot be required to leave the base to put herself in jeopardy, when the fielder doesn't need to make play on the IFF; batter is already out. In this play, R2 has put herself in jeopardy by running; and cannot thenm interfere with the fielder's opportunity to get the 2nd out.