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Old Wed Jun 04, 2014, 11:36am
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Originally Posted by HugoTafurst View Post
She was in dead ball territory, she intentionally reached over and picked up a live ball, making it dead.
I would rule that intentional.
Yeah, but her intent wasn't malicious.

There's a similar situation where a fielder enters a dugout to tag a runner. She certainly does that intentionally, but in the spirit of what the rule really wants to punish, this is not considered intentionally carrying the ball into DBT.
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