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Old Sat Mar 21, 2015, 01:28am
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The key here is that the ball went sharply and directly from the bat to the catcher's glove or hand first.
As Andy points out, this is the criteria for foul tip eligibility. After this happens, there are only two outcomes: a catch of any flavor (live ball strike), or a drop (dead ball/foul ball).
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Old Sun Mar 22, 2015, 07:39pm
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As Andy points out, this is the criteria for foul tip eligibility. After this happens, there are only two outcomes: a catch of any flavor (live ball strike), or a drop (dead ball/foul ball).
Well, not quite. There are more options, which have been neglected. Since a foul tip must be caught by the catcher, if the ball went sharply an directly from the bat, to the catcher's glove, then hit her in the shin and ricocheted up in the air and was caught by someone other than the catcher, this is a dead ball foul.
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Old Sun Mar 22, 2015, 08:25pm
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Well, not quite. There are more options, which have been neglected. Since a foul tip must be caught by the catcher, if the ball went sharply an directly from the bat, to the catcher's glove, then hit her in the shin and ricocheted up in the air and was caught by someone other than the catcher, this is a dead ball foul.
Yep. Never understood why that is, but it is.
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