True Statement?
 

This time of year I like to go over some things in my head and make sure I am interpreting them correctly.

So is the following correct: (Speaking both FED and NCAA)

A base runner is not out on a ball that hits them after it passes an IF (excluding the P) unless it is intentional.

A base runner can commit interference on an IF even after ball passes another IF if the ball has not been deflected and the second IF has an opportunity to make a play on the ball.

I have read the book, just trying to simplify without misinterpreting.

Both sentences are a little vague. Not sure either are universally true.

Re sitch 1, ball hit just to the left of a drawn in F3, right at F4 - R1 from first collides with F4 before the ball gets there. Out. But not according to your statement.

Re sitch 2... Two things. First, "A base runner can commit interference"... do you mean "it is possible for a baserunner to be called out for interference", or "A baserunner is allowed to commit interference"? Second, this SEEMS to contradict sitch 1.

He's talking about a fair-batted ball the hits the runner.

Kind of hard for a drawn in F3 to have a play on a ball hit right at F4.

I hear you on the "can commit" I meant a runner can be called out for INT.

If no other fielder has an opportunity to make a play, this is true.
True if hit by a batted ball, but it doesn't have to be an infielder.

Yes, obviously... did I lead you to think I thought something else? Not sure where you're going with that comment.

First day on the softball field? No it's not. Happens all the time. Ditto a drawn in F5 having a play on a ball hit to F6. Happens all the time.

Firstly, the OP was a question, not a statement.

Secondly, if the ball is hit to the left of a drawn in F3, I'm thinking it's down the line and doubtful it's "right at" F4.

So what are you big-timing people now? For someone who posts primarily about how their 10U and 12U league games are going, I think that's a harsh way to treat a poster with a question.

"Left" is which direction on a ball field from F3? Which direction is left field from F3?

Are you kidding me? OK I'll play. Left field is to the RIGHT of F3.

Remember the game a lot of us played as kids called the "telephone game"? One person would whisper a statement or question in another person's ear and the process would continue until it went through the whole class or group and by the end the original statement/question had been turned into something different......Well the telephone game is now called "Softball-The Official Forum".

And Crowder you are correct I have never been on a ball field in my life and you are a GOD.

From who's perspective? The left side of the field is the left side of the field.

That depends on which way you are facing. After all, anyone playing to the left of the LF sees left field to their right, right? :rolleyes:

The left fielder is called the left fielder for a reason as is the right fielder.
3B and SS are called the left side of the infield.

How is this even a debate.

So in football if you are the defense is the left tackle the right tackle?????

Wow. This thread turned to the absurd. Did it turn left or right? (Depends which way you are facing.)

OK, now you're just being intentionally stupid to back up your error. A ball hit "to the left of the first baseman" is hit toward the 2nd baseman or between them ... NOT down the line. You made a mistake, we all do. Move on... don't make it dumber.

I made a mistake based on what, your opinion?

I can't name an umpire that I work with who would not consider a ball hit "to the left of the first baseman" or "to the first baseman's left" down the line. The fielder's perspective is what is considered.

The whole "left of" issue has deflected the reason for my response to your "First day on a softball field?" comment. Stay on point "Big Time".

OK, enough is enough. If you two want to bicker, please switch to email. :(

Not meaning to "bicker"! :)

The FDonSF comment seems to have been born from your "mistake". I don't know a single umpire, player, coach, or reasonable fan who would look at the field the way you do. By the logic you're using, a ball hit to the RIGHT of the pitcher goes to the LEFT side of the infield or LEFT field... and a ball hit to the LEFT of the pitcher goes to the RIGHT side of the infield or RIGHT field. You want to live that way, fine. I don't really care - your listeners will consider you idiotic if you do, but again, I don't care.

And I don't think it's "big time" to understand which side of the field is which. But that misunderstanding and your insistence that a ball hit to the left of F3 could not possibly be near F4 is what brought my comment. Obviously, if you think about it... to anyone who realizes that LEFT of F3 means toward F4 (or at least between F3 and F4), your comment that you've never seen that before would surely sound like you've never been on the field before.

I'm not trying to Big Time you... I have no place to do so. And I apologize if you took it that way.