What do you do?

xtremeump · #1 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 22, 2013, 04:09pm

Steve, thank you for the RULE, Cecil, I am with you we know that we are playing on fields that are close and it is possible that a SOFTBALL, could fly into our field. Play on and if nothing is effected, good. If in the 1 in a 1,000,000, chance the play is effected deal with it.

tcannizzo · #2 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 22, 2013, 04:33pm

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Originally Posted by xtremeump

Steve, thank you for the RULE, Cecil, I am with you we know that we are playing on fields that are close and it is possible that a SOFTBALL, could fly into our field. Play on and if nothing is effected, good. If in the 1 in a 1,000,000, chance the play is effected deal with it.

Here's one for you from a couple years ago.
I am PU.
B hits a foul ball that has just gone over the fence just beyond the edge of the infield grass on the 3B side.
Lo and behold, a foul ball from the other field collides with our foul ball mid-flight.

What are the odds of that???

Dakota · #3 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 22, 2013, 04:43pm

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Originally Posted by tcannizzo

Here's one for you from a couple years ago.
I am PU.
B hits a foul ball that has just gone over the fence just beyond the edge of the infield grass on the 3B side.
Lo and behold, a foul ball from the other field collides with our foul ball mid-flight... and deflects it back over the field where it is caught.

Ruling?

CecilOne · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 22, 2013, 04:50pm

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Originally Posted by Dakota

Ruling?

whether it was out of play on contact or in play.

IRISHMAFIA · #5 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 22, 2013, 04:50pm

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Originally Posted by Dakota

Ruling?

Foul ball. Rule 1. Foul Ball.C

Skahtboi · #6 (**permalink**) Mon Jul 22, 2013, 06:11pm

Back to the OP; what we did was exactly what, IMO, we should have done when this happened. We allowed everything to continue to conclusion, had the out at first. Of course, the OC, who was losing and in his last at bat, wanted it to be a dead ball and his runner awarded first. Explained the ruling to him, and we moved on.

What surprised me was the number of umpires after the game who advised that we should have immediately called a dead ball, and ruled on what would have happened in our judgment had the ball hit from the other field not landed on ours. When I pressed them for a ruling to back that, they, as you can probably guess, resorted to the "fan interference" rule. I was floored, so I thought I would see what happened if I posted it here. Guess I shouldn't have been too surprised by their opinions, in hindsight.

tcannizzo · #7 (**permalink**) Tue Jul 23, 2013, 11:25am

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Originally Posted by Dakota

Ruling?

Foul ball with a cosmic moment....