Sentence examples for fly rules from inspiring English sources

For example, when the Providence Grays, who favor 1884 rules, oppose the Brooklyn Atlantic Base Ball Club, who play with 1864 rules, one game would largely resemble baseball the way it is played today, albeit without the gloves, whereas the 1864 game would feature slow, underhanded pitching and fly rules dictating that any ball caught on one bounce is an out.

Video reviews cannot be used on infield fly rule matters.

The infield fly rule was signaled after some hesitation by the left-field umpire, Sam Holbrook.

7.47pm BST Giants 6, Reds 0 Bottom 5th Heisey pops out to the infield fly rule.

Until Friday night, it had included the irreverent phrase "We don't understand the infield fly rule, either".

"Legal scholars simply cannot keep their hands off the infield fly rule — either substantively or as a metaphor," Spencer Weber Waller and Neil B. Cohen wrote in "Taking Pop-ups Seriously: The Jurisprudence of the Infield Fly Rule," a 2004 article in The Washington University Law Quarterly.

If the security guard tries and fails to catch him in leftfield, is the infield fly rule still in effect?

For anyone who doesn't fish, this will sound as mysterious as baseball's infield fly rule.

On the other hand, in Williams's march to.400, he did not have the sacrifice fly rule working for him.

He said the infield fly rule, as well as rules regarding interference, obstruction and what constitutes a legal catch, are most often misunderstood.

He may not know the infield fly rule yet, but when his shift was over on Thursday afternoon he went straight home to watch the game.