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I’ve seen situations where a missed call wasn’t reviewable and changed the tenor of a game. Imagine if a few runs scored on a batted ball that bounced to the left of third base but was ruled a fair ball. If it were reviewable, that would be easy to place the runners. Personally, I care more about the call being right than about how long it takes to make the call right. Isn’t that the whole point? I understand there has to be a limit, but the current limits feel rather arbitrary. Maybe only add fair/foul on the infield to the list.

Replays are important for the integrity of the game. In fact, I feel like the list of reviewable calls should be expanded to include things like fair/foul on the infield when the original call is fair (seems easy enough to place the runners), whether or not a batted ball hit the batter in or out of the batter’s box, whether the batter was out of the box, and other calls that would be relatively easy to review but which often get overlooked. For that matter I also think that the infield fly rule should be revised so that if the ball lands and all runners advance safely, the call gets waved off.

Velcro... that’s what I was thinking. But I like your answer.

Oh I see it. But why doesn’t that fall under the same category as laces?

Here you go. And I don’t see a tag with the glove. Just the arm. 8D792D52-52A6-4601-994F-F7A9F1E0F3E8.MOV

I’m assuming it was confirmed because of how quick it was. There’s an MLB Replay account? Is it public?

They upheld it so quickly though... so the forearm doesn’t count? Got it.

Interesting. In the above play, the fielder clearly slaps Schwarber’s back with his arm, but I’m not sure he ever got him with the actual glove. Call on the field was out, the cubs challenged and it took New York about twenty seconds to uphold the call, if that.

Didn’t help. I want to know if you can tag with your arm.

Assuming you have the ball, how much of your arm can be used to apply a tag? Does the wrist count? The forearm? The elbow? All the way up to the shoulder? I’m asking about the major-league level. For example, do both of these count? (Pretend they were different plays.)

Let’s say you have a runner involved in a play with two outs, and after the play is over, an offensive substitution is made. Then, the defense appeals (as on a missed base or for failing to tag) and that runner is called out to end the inning. Is the substitute burned or did managerial moves made after the third out get undone? Does this also hold for a defensive substitution?

Isn’t the top of the wall behind the base of the fence?

Do you think MLB would permit such a ground rule?

Has anyone here come across any MLB stadium where the ground rules deem a fly ball that bounces off the top of the wall and out of play to be anything OTHER than a home run? Or any baseball field where an out-of-the-park home run is possible—at any level?

Can ground rules even apply to the top of walls? I’d imagine even in Philadelphia, where the railing above the wall is in play, that if a fly ball bounced off the top of the wall and out of play it would be a home run. Edit: Huh, I guess they can.

Judging from the trajectory of the bounce (i.e. high and into the stands, it hit the top of the wall, not the facing.

Which one?

I’d still like to know whether there’s a specific rule for it or whether it’s just something that “everyone just knows.”

Is there a specific rule that states that a fly ball which bounces off the top of the outfield wall and goes out of play is a home run? I’d like to be able to quote my source when I comment on YouTube that this call is incorrect. FEB2BDA3-FC3D-4F85-A9BD-71BAD29D81F2.mov

One more question: what happens with the same scenario if, when X bats after G, if the defense attempts to argue that X was intended to pinch-hit for I and that H was thus skipped? Is there any variation of this scenario where H is considered skipped even though X pinch-hit after G, particularly at the MLB level?

Related question: If the lineup goes A, B, C, D, ... , G, H, I, and G is followed by X, who is followed by A, and in the following inning, H tries to return to the field, what happens?

Let’s say you have a lineup ending in G, H, I. If, after G bats, X enters as a pinch-hitter, and then H bats after that, have they batted out of order or made an illegal substitution. What happens?

Never mind I overlooked a key detail.

I ask because the rules specifically state that with two outs the winning run cannot score before the batter reaches first.

Related question. Let’s say in the same scenario there are two outs and R2 and R3 both reach home plate before BR reaches first. Is it still only one run?