intentionally dropped ball

[steveshane67]

Originally Posted by greymule

I'm not quite clear as to what happened. If by "let it drop," you mean Lowell allowed the ball to fall untouched, then the ump blew the call. If you mean he blocked it with the side of his glove, then the call was correct. And just because the glove didn't close on the ball doesn't mean an intentional drop can't be called. But it's hard to visualize F5 diving to his left and expecting to knock a ball down and still have time to step on 3B and throw to 1B. Well, maybe if he was positioned right near the line.

the batter hit a line drive to lowells RIGHT, i mistyped earlier, it was my left, his right. the ball entered lowells mitt, he just never closed it, picked the ball up off the ground, was in the process of taking 2 steps towards 3rd when the ump killed the play.