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Isn’t the infield fly rule essentially patching a bug once it was discovered that it could be exploited? I don’t know much about baseball, but it doesn’t strike
by baddox 9y ago
Isn’t the infield fly rule essentially patching a bug once it was discovered that it could be exploited? I don’t know much about baseball, but it doesn’t strike me as a rule change that would effect the game negatively in any significant way.
- gbacon 9y agoThat’s a reasonable way to look at it and not negative at all. Umpires do have some discretion as to what’s an infield fly, but it’s part of the game — and better than without the rule.
- DrScump 9y agoThe only subjective element is ruling "ordinary effort" by an infielder. As for fair or foul, the rule is automatically void on a foul ball, although the umpire should explicitly call "infield fly if fair" on a fly that may land foul. I literally saved my team's season one year when I wrote an upheld protest of a misapplication of the IFR. We won the replay, that got us into the playoffs, and we won the championship.