CSE Softball Quiz #2 - Definitions

A live batted, pitched, or thrown ball that contacts nongame personnel, game personnel in unauthorized areas, loose equipment, or an object that is neither official game equipment nor part of the official playing area, or dead ball territory. Also refers to a ball that remains on the playing field but has become lodged, wedged, or stuck in something other than a fielder's glove.

• live ball

• dead ball

• blocked ball

• trapped ball

A fair or foul batted ball that travels parallel to the ground immediately off the bat, neither substantially rising into the air nor dropping to the ground.

• pop up

• fly ball

• ground ball

• line drive

Equipment or the act of an offensive player, coach, umpire, or spectator that denies the fielder a reasonable opportunity to play the ball. The act may be intentional or unintentional and the ball must have been playable.

• obstruction

• interference

• blocked ball

• Ground Rule double

A defensive play in which the results are based on the time of the action.

• base hit

• interference

• timing play

• running the bases

The act of the defense attempting to put out a runner who is caught off base between two or more defensive players and who may either attempt to advance or return to the previous base.

• tag up

• score a run

• steal a base

• rundown

The act of entering the batter's box until being put out, becoming a batter-runner, or being replaced by a substitute while at bat.

• bunt

• defensive play

• turn at bat

• bat out of order

Reference to a player who cannot be put out as a result of a defender's action.

• without liability to be put out

• tag play

• force out

• infield fly rule

An illegal or nonapproved bat that has been changed to resemble a legal bat or was a legal bat that has been intentionally changed from the specifications established in the USA Softball bat certification process.

• nonapproved bat

• illegal bat

• altered bat

• damaged bat

A delay in the game the umpire grants to allow team representatives, team representatives and players, or players and players to confer.

• time out

• conference

• meeting

• get together

The plate umpire suspends play temporarily with the intent that the game will be continued at a later time or date.

• called game

• no contest

• forfeited game

• halted game