Handling the ball in dead ball territory

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Mon Apr 19, 2010, 10:35pm

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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

That's my understanding of the play as well.

The way I read the sitch, the player was standing in DBT, reached into LBT and grabbed the ball.

That makes it a DB. Ground ball, fly ball, fair, foul, doesn't make any difference, if the player has any part of the body on the ground in DBT when contacting the ball, it is dead.

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