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TOPIC: Ball hits mask |
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| Sent to FORUM
November 14, 2016
8:13:14 PM
Entry #: 4211530
| B1 hits a pop fly near the pitcher’s plate. While moving toward the ball, F2 discards the mask. Without
touching any player, the ball strikes the ground with backspin then hits F2’s mask, which is lying on the
ground in fair territory. The ball then stops in foul territory between home and 3B
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| Perry
November 17, 2016
1:48:03 PM
Entry #: 4211682
| Ball didn't go past first or third fair, and I believe that in this case, the mask would be considered part of the field. Therefore, it would be a foul ball.
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| Tammy
November 19, 2016
6:06:45 PM
Entry #: 4211792
| So if the ball hit the mask and stayed fair, it would have been a fair ball?
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| neal
November 20, 2016
1:53:59 PM
Entry #: 4211818
| Per Rule Supplement #17 of the rule equipment dealing with Equipment on the playing field.
Official equipment which maybe in live ball territory with no penalty includes the batter's bat, the catcher's mask, umpire paraphernalia, a helmet which has inadvertently fallen off an offensive or defensive player during play or any equipment belonging to a person assigned to the game.
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| Forum Administration
November 29, 2016
8:45:17 PM
Entry #: 4212153
| RULING: Foul ball. The mask is considered equipment used in the game and there is no penalty.
It is treated the same as hitting a bat discarded by the batter. Hitting the mask in fair territory is a live ball
until it rolls to foul territory, where it is ruled foul when it is touched or comes to rest. (1-FOUL BALL-A)
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| Coach Ron
December 5, 2016
3:33:36 PM
Entry #: 4212458
| Thanks for the clarification. We had one very similar this past Summer in a tournament where the ball came down and hit the mask and stayed fair.
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| Greg
December 7, 2016
7:40:19 PM
Entry #: 4212566
| This situation actually happens more with bats, than it does with masks.
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