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Rockhound
12-11-2006, 08:16 PM
This thought just poped in my head....
You're at Fenway Park, the batter hits a fly ball deep into left field and the ball hits and bounces off the big green monster and is caught by the left fielder before it hits the ground. Is that considered an out? Fly-out? Hit?
EvanAparra
12-11-2006, 08:22 PM
It is a hit.
Elvis
12-11-2006, 08:24 PM
This thought just poped in my head....
You're at Fenway Park, the batter hits a fly ball deep into left field and the ball hits and bounces off the big green monster and is caught by the left fielder before it hits the ground. Is that considered an out? Fly-out? Hit?
That would be a hit. You'd have to catch it before it hit the wall for an out.
RichardLillard1
12-13-2006, 01:09 PM
Its the same as when a ball hits off of a smaller outfield wall, just higher up.
I am curious about what happens if a fan reaches out and grabs a ball that probably would have hit the wall and stayed in the park. As a player would you try to argue fan interference?
The Kid
12-13-2006, 04:38 PM
Any ball that hits off a major league wall and is caught is not an out.
StanTheMan
12-15-2006, 04:43 PM
Interesting thread... with the most appropriate sig in BBF history.
Dizzy Dean LOL
TheJourneyman
12-15-2006, 05:12 PM
Its the same as when a ball hits off of a smaller outfield wall, just higher up.
I am curious about what happens if a fan reaches out and grabs a ball that probably would have hit the wall and stayed in the park. As a player would you try to argue fan interference?
When a fan or any person not associated with one of the teams alters play in progress, it is fan interference. The ball becomes dead, and the umpire will award any bases or charge any outs that, in his judgment, would have occurred without the interference.
Richmond Hill Phoenix
12-17-2006, 08:56 PM
When a fan or any person not associated with one of the teams alters play in progress, it is fan interference. The ball becomes dead, and the umpire will award any bases or charge any outs that, in his judgment, would have occurred without the interference.
But the umpires (from the infield, more or less) would have to have some great evidence to call fan interference atop the Green Monster. It would be a tough sell for a player to try and convince the ump that a fan grabbed the ball.
Interesting thread... with the most appropriate sig in BBF history.
Irony... :laugh