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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: An infield-fly-rule question
Message-ID: <1808@hao.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 15:25:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 15:25:45 1985
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>     An interesting situation occurred in the NLCS game of  Thursday  10/10
>     when Ozzie Smith was on first base  with  one  out.  Andujar  was  the
>     batter  and  was trying to sacrifice Smith over to second base when he
>     bunted a pop-up to the Dodger pitcher, Hersheiser,  who  intentionally
>     allowed  the  bunt  to  drop  (he could have caught the ball) and then
>     threw the ball to second to start a successful  inning  ending  double
>     play.  
>     ...it  appears that the baseball rules committee
>     should expand the scope of the  infield  fly  rule  to  cover  special
>     situations  with  only  a  baserunner at first and less than two outs.

  I disagree. It requires a very smart play to allow a bunt or line drive
to fall. A pop fly, however, you have time to THINK about it. With the bunt
or line drive examples, you have to really be on your toes to get that
double play. And, you have to have good execution of the infield play in order
to get the batter out at first.

--Greg
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