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The infield fly rule is a rule of baseball and softball that treats certain fly balls as though caught, before the ball is caught, even if the infielder fails to catch it or drops it on purpose. The umpire 's declaration of an infield fly means that the batter is out (and all force plays are removed) regardless of whether the ball is caught.
The technique is quite common in softball because of the difficulty of getting a hit with a pitcher only 40 feet (12 m) away. By already being in the front of the batter's box with the batter's body turned halfway toward first base , the batter already has some momentum toward first base and might be in better position to get a base hit.
This rule continues in baseball today, but catcher became a required position, and starting in the mid-19th century, catchers began moving up to their current position directly behind home plate so as to catch pitches (now following a flatter trajectory) directly on the fly. Thus the rule became mostly vestigial and its original children's-game ...
Benintendi was out before the ball landed in shortstop Gunnar Henderson's glove via the infield fly rule, which should have been the second out for the White Sox. It wound up being the third as ...
Martinez also had a 5.8% "infield fly ball percentage", [18] meaning that 5.8% of the fly balls he hit were infield pop-ups. [ 17 ] In 2010, FanGraphs noted that the "league average" for batted ball rates was 44% ground balls, 35% fly balls, and 21% line drives (the three figures sum to 100%) with 11% of fly balls being infield pop-ups.
OU softball second baseman Alynah Torres left Saturday's WCWS game against UCLA after getting hit in the head after losing a pop fly in the sun. ... Allchin was out on the infield fly, but the ...
The Infield Fly Rule (now covered by Major League Baseball rules 6.05e and 2.00), was adopted in the 1890s to prevent situations in which fielders could take advantage of base runners by intentionally allowing a ball to drop with runners on first and second or bases loaded and less than two outs in order to turn a double play or triple play on the base runners.
Jul. 12—INDIANAPOLIS — Sports are constantly adapting, altering rules and adjusting to make improvements in the game. Much like last week's announcements of changes for high school baseball in ...