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Can the infield fly rule still be enforced if it wasn't called by the umpires at the time of the play? This happened in the championship game last w/e at the Sunraze tournament. Runners on 1st & 2nd w/ no outs. Batter hits a pop up between home, 3rd & pitcher. Pitcher calls for it, but the ball hits her glove, lands on the ground in fair territory & then rolls foul. Nothing is called by either ump. Runners take off for the next base. Catcher picks up the ball & throws to the ss who is covering 3rd. Runner arrives ahead of the throw & is called safe by the ump. Ball is returned to the pitcher & all players & umpires return to their positions. Now, bases are loaded & pitcher steps on rubber. Just then the defensive coach calls time & walks up to home plate ump & asks about the infield fly rule. After conversing w/ the base ump he announces that infield fly rule does come into play & points to runner on 1st & calls her out. The other 2 runners remained on 2nd & 3rd.
I've always heard umpires call "infield fly, batter's out if fair", while the ball is in the air. By the umps not calling it at the time of the hit, I'm sure the runners felt that they were forced to run to the next base. Suppose when the catcher threw the ball to the ss, the ss was able to tag the runner f/ 2nd before she reached 3rd. Ump would have called her out. Then after coach comes out to argue infield fly rule, would the ump also call batter out as well? I'm sure you can come up w/ all kinds of what if's or scenarios that could play.
Anyways, can the ump go back after the play & rule infield fly rule? And if so, does he call runners out that tried to advance at their own risk, even though the runners didn't know they had a choice of running or staying put?
I've always heard umpires call "infield fly, batter's out if fair", while the ball is in the air. By the umps not calling it at the time of the hit, I'm sure the runners felt that they were forced to run to the next base. Suppose when the catcher threw the ball to the ss, the ss was able to tag the runner f/ 2nd before she reached 3rd. Ump would have called her out. Then after coach comes out to argue infield fly rule, would the ump also call batter out as well? I'm sure you can come up w/ all kinds of what if's or scenarios that could play.
Anyways, can the ump go back after the play & rule infield fly rule? And if so, does he call runners out that tried to advance at their own risk, even though the runners didn't know they had a choice of running or staying put?