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April 24: Athletics vs Orioles vs Mother Nature


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6 minutes ago, Beef Supreme said:

cap tip:

If the ball touches a fielder in-flight, the judgment is made at where the ball was when it was touched, NOT from where it may land after a miss, or drop of the ball, by a fielder. 

...and that ball looked to be over foul territory when Chapman missed it.

Exactly. Which is why it was foul. 

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8 minutes ago, Beef Supreme said:

cap tip:

If the ball touches a fielder in-flight, the judgment is made at where the ball was when it was touched, NOT from where it may land after a miss, or drop of the ball, by a fielder. 

...and that ball looked to be over foul territory when Chapman missed it.

I'm looking right down the 3B line as I am sitting in the upper deck on the first base side (see my Twitter photo several pages back).

It was a foul ball, from my seats I never even imagined it wyd b controversial.

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