Posted on 04/15/2019 7:06:30 PM PDT by TBP
Baseball rocks because ...
1. You get roused from slumber mid-game to go leak.
2. Despite the name, the World Series has no furriner teams, except Canada.
3. It makes golf seem exciting.
4. Your balls can be hard or soft.
5. It gets people with nothing better to do off the street.
My father lettered in baseball. He revered it.
I enjo. seeing it live. I hate watching it on teevee.
I want the whole field in my sight, and I want the air and sun.
Because you can take a nap and the score will still be 1-0 and the 5th inning?
Not with the Rangers' pitching staff.
Hockey.
If the fielder leaves the field of play, catches a fly ball; the batter is out. Doesn’t matter where. Think of catchers rolling over the dugout fence and falling into the dugout. All runners advance one base based on the ball being out of the field of play. If the fielder is out of bounds and makes the catch(standing a tarp roll or a catcher standing in the dugout making the catch) the ball is dead and no out is recorded.
Some leeway is allowed by the officials in control of the game in the form of player control after the catch. For the most part, if the activity of the catch carries the player out of the field of play, the player only has to prove control of the ball, regardless of where the player ends up. The activity of the catch MUST be initiated within the field of play.
Field rules will define the field of play; whether the bullpen is in play or out of play (almost all MLB fields designate the bullpen OUT-can’t think of one that doesn’t). If the bullpen is “in play” according to field rules, then anything hit into it is a ground-rule double.
The question I have is the ruling regarding a ball that is caught outside the field of play and then control is lost while returning it to the field of play. Home run or ground-rule double? GRD, I think.
My wife adores it, especially that stupid gamecock stuff.
I despise all sports pretty much so no bias.
A game. Not a sport.
It ain’t “take me out to the old ball sport”
Ha Ha! Fair point. I love busting golfers balls.
Unless there's the occasional hit or error.
Otherwise, it's tantamount to watching paint dry.
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