The Infield Fly Rule is easy: it is just meant to prevent the fielding team from taking advantage of a pop-up fly when there are runners on base. By letting the ball drop – they can get 1 or 2 maybe 3 outs as the tagged-up runners are forced to run when the ball hits the ground. Instead, they are forced to accept the single out from a easy pop-up fly.
NoSleepTil_BKLYN almost 10 years ago
The Infield Fly Rule is easy: it is just meant to prevent the fielding team from taking advantage of a pop-up fly when there are runners on base. By letting the ball drop – they can get 1 or 2 maybe 3 outs as the tagged-up runners are forced to run when the ball hits the ground. Instead, they are forced to accept the single out from a easy pop-up fly.
Simple!
jtviper7 almost 10 years ago
And it’s in my soup…
yimhere almost 10 years ago
Now-a-days, a pop-up is something quite different…. wish the infield fly rule applied to computers…?