Infield Fly

[Supertay19]

Can you reverse an infield fly call that was incorrectly applied meaning that you had runners at first and second or bases loaded with less than 2 outs and it wasn’t a bunt or line drive but a legitimate fly ball with no chance by the closest infielder to its proximity of flight and or landing remotely getting close enough to be caught but one of the umpires regardless in a two man crew calls and signals infield fly??

thanks

[noumpere]

Was it bad judgment, or a mis-application of the rule?

[grayhawk]

On 9/17/2024 at 11:17 PM, Supertay19 said:

Can you reverse an infield fly call that was incorrectly applied meaning that you had runners at first and second or bases loaded with less than 2 outs and it wasn’t a bunt or line drive but a legitimate fly ball with no chance by the closest infielder to its proximity of flight and or landing remotely getting close enough to be caught but one of the umpires regardless in a two man crew calls and signals infield fly??

thanks

Did the runners advance when the ball dropped, or did they stay put? If they stayed, I think it would be pretty difficult to retract an infield fly call. What would you do, award the BR first and advance the runners? No way. If they advanced and the BR was on first and no out was made, then I guess it's possible, but you may be writing an EJ report. Sometimes, you just have to swallow a call made with poor judgment and learn to have better timing on the next one.

[Vegas_Ump]

I think once it's called, you can't un-call it!

I was FU for a Majors LL softball game where a popup was ruled an IFF--batter out.  Then the wind shifted and carried the ball out to right field.  It was dropped by F9!

PU allowed play to continue, but he re-inforced that the batter was out.  He admitted that he called it too soon, and he could not un-ring that bell!  Then he looked for a convenient foul line to crawl under!

Moral of the story:  Wait until you have all criteria met for an IFF, especially the "reasonable effort" part.

Mike

Las Vegas

[834k3r]

On 9/17/2024 at 11:17 PM, Supertay19 said:

Can you reverse an infield fly call that was incorrectly applied meaning that you had runners at first and second or bases loaded with less than 2 outs and it wasn’t a bunt or line drive but a legitimate fly ball with no chance by the closest infielder to its proximity of flight and or landing remotely getting close enough to be caught but one of the umpires regardless in a two man crew calls and signals infield fly??

thanks

I agree with others here:  it's nearly impossible to justly "uncall" IFF. IMHO, it's easier to reverse a non-call of IFF.

[Jimurray]

2 hours ago, 834k3r said:

I agree with others here:  it's nearly impossible to justly "uncall" IFF. IMHO, it's easier to reverse a non-call of IFF.

We have to have an answer to @noumpere's question. The OP seems to be a judgment call which I don't think can be reversed. If we change it to 2 outs or R1, R3 in the OP then "what happens, happens" according to the BRD where all three codes require the teams to know it's not an IFF.

[Aging_Arbiter]

On 9/19/2024 at 12:07 PM, grayhawk said:

poor judgment

Good judgement comes from experience.

Experience comes from bad judgement.

😂