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To: shove_it

What if he had dropped the glove with the ball in it but the ball didn’t touch the ground, then he grabs the ball out of the glove?

Is it a fly ball out? Does the glove become part of the field when it leaves his hand and therefor he would have to throw the guy out at first?


7 posted on 09/30/2012 6:44:12 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
A CATCH is the act of a fielder in getting secure possession in his hand or glove of a ball in flight and firmly holding it;

My call: if he drops the glove, he did not get the ball in secure possession and firmly hold it.

11 posted on 09/30/2012 6:56:22 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Kafka in the throes of a demonic possession could not have come up with the "tuck rule".)
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To: Right Wing Assault

No, it is not a flyball out. The rules specifically state that a player may not try to stop the ball by throwing a glover or mitt, a belt, cap or other paraphernalia to stop a ball. The important thing is that he had the ball for the out.


17 posted on 09/30/2012 8:14:10 AM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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