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(10,115 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)that is awesome on any level
True Dough
(17,379 posts)Even if that kid never has a major league career, he'll always have that highlight. I would show that to every friend and relative that comes to my house for the rest of my life. Probably just have it looping on the TV screen 24/7.
MyOwnPeace
(16,951 posts)Imagine his friends in 10 years:
"Hey, let's go over to Billy's and play some video games."
"Nah, he'll just make us watch that f**king video again!"
True Dough
(17,379 posts)Approaching random strangers: "Hey, did you ever see the 2017 Little League World Series? I got something I want to show you."
Pulls out phone. Plays clip.
"Can you believe that?"
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)from Married with Children.
Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)kairos12
(12,896 posts)murielm99
(30,782 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,508 posts)The kid literally caught it after it went over the fence.
rocktivity
(44,585 posts)you have to catch the ball BEFORE it passes where the wall would have been if it were high enough.
This is from a junior college game -- the umpire ruled it a catch.
rocktivity
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Of course I COULD be wrong all these 65 years.
Kingofalldems
(38,508 posts)It crossed the plane and he caught it before it landed so it's an out.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)paleotn
(18,012 posts)He was robbed! He was robbed!
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Ligyron
(7,645 posts)Nice snag kid.
TNNurse
(6,931 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Since he and the ball went over the fence?
Kingofalldems
(38,508 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,539 posts)where Frank reached over the fence from the seats and caught a fly ball before a player could catch it for an out, giving the away team a home run and a win they otherwise wouldn't have had. Death threats ensue.
Ptah
(33,055 posts)Death threats ensued because Frank kept the football.
forgotmylogin
(7,539 posts)I'm trying to figure out how it works with football... But I very well could be wrong...all the sitcoms start to blend!
Brother Buzz
(36,498 posts)If it's a caught ball, it's an out. That is, if at least one foot remains on or over the field at the time of the catch. Once it's caught, a player can take a nosedive into the stands, or in this case, over the outfield fence.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)and still be viewed as a home run? It seems so. I remember Don Baylor diving head first into the stands once for a homerun (he did not catch it).
https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2015/4/16/8429809/home-run-robbing-video-fence-dumb
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Should this greatest Little League catch ever have counted?
Jack Regenye caught controversy along with the most impressive Junior League World Series catch in history.
The Kennett Square, Penn., center fielder, during a championship game against Chinese Taipei in Taylor, Mich., on Saturday afternoon, ranged back for a ball that appeared destined to clear the wall.
The ball did. And so did Regenye.
In a play that echoed Jackie Bradley Jr.s, the Boston outfielder who last month robbed Aaron Judge by winding up on the other side of the fence, Regenye never stopped running, leapt, threw his gloved hand in the air and tumbled over the wall. When he rose from the other side, he coolly showed the ball in his mitt.
The original call was an out, until the Chinese Taipei manage argued the call, and the umpires conferenced. They overturned the ruling and let the batter round the bases before overturning their own overturn, again ruling it an out.
Chinese Taipei, though, won 12-1 in five innings for its fifth straight title, according to the Detroit Free Press., in the international tournament for children ages 12-15.
Laffy Kat
(16,392 posts)As they should be.
paleotn
(18,012 posts)As a former outfielder through high school, that was a heck of a catch at any level. Let me tell you, hitting that fence hurts like a MF'r. It's better to sail over it.