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Guest Kenny king
Batter hits a line drive down the line just in foul territory. Fielder lays out for it and while he is in mid air ( no part of his body touching the ground) ball hits his glove and deflects into fair territory. Foul or fair? Please provide rule reference
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Rich Ives
It is easily resolved. And the new interp is wrong. Why and how? Because if a ball touches 1B or 3B or a foul pole it's fair even though it may be 99.9% over foul territory (and if rolli
Rich Ives
It's 100% about where the ball was when first touched. Nothing else matters. Definitions of fair and foul.
Replacematt
Or that same ball could be rolling parallel to the line, and towards the base when the fielder touches it nearly simultaneously with its upper half touches the base. If you judge that the fielder touc
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