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Old Tue Jun 16, 2015, 06:21am
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And "made an out" means you get to decide that fielders chasing batted balls (usually an F6 chasing a batted ball up the middle) that YOU judge cannot make an out are not protected, and are, in fact, subject to obstruction calls with runners starting on 2nd. In NCAA, (or any other ruleset using that wording) if the F6 could reach and stop the ball, that alone extends the protection with "make a play" versus "made an out", irrespective of your judgment that no out could be made.
I often find the difference between "play" and "out" in certain rules to be somewhat ambiguous as the definition of "play" includes the attempt to retire a BR/R/offensive player including the NCAA.
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