fair or foul

[Jimurray]

Is their a new interp besides the one of a ball resting on the ground ? 50 seconds in. The ball didn't kick up calk but I'm pretty sure it's paint. Not a good angle for us to judge though.

(1) The Yankees Played their First Spring Training Game, a breakdown - YouTube

[johnnyg08]

23 minutes ago, Jimurray said:

Is their a new interp besides the one of a ball resting on the ground ? 50 seconds in. The ball didn't kick up calk but I'm pretty sure it's paint. Not a good angle for us to judge though.

(1) The Yankees Played their First Spring Training Game, a breakdown - YouTube

I think it was an interp from MLBUM. I don't have my stuff handy to verify right now though...in fact it might have been my post a couple years ago bringing it up. 

[johnnyg08]

Yep...here it is...2019 MLBUM:

Fair Ball

Definition of Terms:

When in contact with the ground, a ball must be in contact with fair territory and not merely over fair territory in order to be adjudged to be fair

[johnnyg08]

55 minutes ago, Jimurray said:

Is their a new interp besides the one of a ball resting on the ground ? 50 seconds in. The ball didn't kick up calk but I'm pretty sure it's paint. Not a good angle for us to judge though.

(1) The Yankees Played their First Spring Training Game, a breakdown - YouTube

Also I agree...it's pretty likely that they paint the lines at that level. 

[Jimurray]

But that was a bounding ball. Does half of it have to be over 1B as it bounds? 1B being either the front of the bag or the defined 1B point?

 

[beerguy55]

15 hours ago, Jimurray said:

Is their a new interp besides the one of a ball resting on the ground ? 50 seconds in. The ball didn't kick up calk but I'm pretty sure it's paint. Not a good angle for us to judge though.

(1) The Yankees Played their First Spring Training Game, a breakdown - YouTube

I think this is just a miss, rather than a new interpretation - U1 looking through F3 and probably just doesn't see properly (or at all)...it looks, to me, like the ball actually bounces on the inside of the line.    Not reviewable though, but this is exhibit A to why it should be reviewable....where ump is obviously obscured it doesn't really matter if it's in front of him or not.