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This one is for Bretman.
College game. Bases loaded, 1 out. Batter hits a popup, home plate ump immediately calls infield fly. Turns out that was way premature as the ball lands 20 feet into CF grass uncaught. None of the infielders got within 10 feet of the ball and the CF came charging in hard and was barely able to tip the ball, but it went uncaught. All runners moved up, and the ball came to the circle. In reality, it wasn't an infield fly at all since nobody was going to catch it with extraordinary effort, much less camp out under it with oridinary effort.
Question is, once all is said and done with the play, should the home plate ump reverse his call and leave the batter/runner on first or stick to his guns and declare the batter out?
College game. Bases loaded, 1 out. Batter hits a popup, home plate ump immediately calls infield fly. Turns out that was way premature as the ball lands 20 feet into CF grass uncaught. None of the infielders got within 10 feet of the ball and the CF came charging in hard and was barely able to tip the ball, but it went uncaught. All runners moved up, and the ball came to the circle. In reality, it wasn't an infield fly at all since nobody was going to catch it with extraordinary effort, much less camp out under it with oridinary effort.
Question is, once all is said and done with the play, should the home plate ump reverse his call and leave the batter/runner on first or stick to his guns and declare the batter out?