CSE Softball Quiz #5 - Fielding / Defense

Occurs when a defensive player, neither in possession of the ball nor in the act of fielding a batted ball, impedes a batter's attempt to make contact with a pitch or impedes the progress of any runner who is legally running the bases on a live ball.

• interference

• obstruction

• appeal

• timing play

The act of a fielder who, with their hand(s) and/or glove/mitt, securely gains possession of a batted, pitched, or thrown ball.

• obstruction

• interference

• no catch

• catch

A fielder may leave live-ball territory and be airborne at the time of a catch.

• True

• False

When the fielder has made the catch but drops the ball in making a secondary move, the ball shall be ruled caught.

• True

• False

Immediately after a catch, the fielder collides with another player, umpire, or fence, or falls to the ground and fails to maintain possession of the ball.

What is the effect?

• No catch

• Ball is live

• Batter-runner and base runners may advance with liability to be put out

• All of the first 3 answers

• Catch

A batted fly ball or line drive that hits the ground or a fence on a short hop before being caught. A thrown ball that is caught but the ball is on the ground and the glove/mitt/hand is over, rather than under it, and the fielder does not have secure possession. A pitch that is a strike but touches the ground on a short hop before being caught be the catcher.

• catch

• trap

• smother

• foul ball

What is the effect of an unintentional catch and carry where a thrown or batted ball is caught and carried into dead-ball territory?

• live ball

• base runners awarded one base without liability to be put out

• base runners awarded two bases without liability to be put out

• defensive player

  is ejected

When a line is used to determine dead-ball territory, the line is considered in play.

• True

• False

If a fielder has one foot in play and the other foot in the air, they legally may catch, field, or throw the ball.

• True

• False

A fielder shall not position themself in the base runner's line of vision to obviously distract them or intentionally prohibit them from seeing the release of the pitch.

What is the effect for this type of obstruction?

• No penalty, just tell the fielder to move.

• Delayed dead ball,

  Obstruction,

  Warning to the defensive player,

  Notify the Coach

• Ejection of the defensive player

• Award the runner one base