Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
Judgment call, generally based on the runner's trajectory. It's pretty obvious the vast majority of the time, because runners either a) are going to make the turn to second automatically in case of an error in the outfield, or b) need to run for their lives to be safe at first and will find themselves well into foul ground. Note that the call itself is entirely about intent and has nothing to do with fair/foul. For context, many judgement calls in baseball cause a lot of controversy, but this isn't one of them. What's the kid doing with a wooden bat? Is that a league rule, safety thing? Wooden bats are rare until the pros, normally.