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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.
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Infield Fly Game: October 5, 2012 St. Louis Cardinals: 6–3 Atlanta Braves: 2012 National League Wild Card Game, known for a controversial infield fly called by umpire Sam Holbrook on a fly ball off of the bat of Braves player Andrelton Simmons that landed in shallow left field between Cardinals players Pete Kozma and Matt Holliday. [34] [35 ...
Ground rules are rules applying to the field, objects on and near it, and special situations relating to them, in the game of baseball. Major League Baseball has defined a set of "universal ground rules" that apply to all MLB ballparks; [1] individual ballparks have the latitude to set ground rules above and beyond the universal ground rules ...
Roku has received the rights to 18 Major League Baseball games in the continuation of the league's "Sunday Leadoff" television package. Beginning this Sunday with the St. Louis Cardinals' home ...
In baseball, a sacrifice fly (sometimes abbreviated to sac fly) is defined by Rule 9.08(d): [1] "Score a sacrifice fly when, before two are out, the batter hits a ball in flight handled by an outfielder or an infielder running in the outfield in fair or foul territory that is caught, and a run scores after the catch, or
In addition to that rule, a game might theoretically end if both the home and away team were to run out of players to substitute (see Substitutions, below). In Major League Baseball, the longest game played was a 26-inning affair between the Brooklyn Robins and Boston Braves on May 1, 1920. The game, called on account of darkness, ended in a 1 ...
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.