WorksheetsCSE Softball Quiz #5 - Fielding / Defense
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 18mins
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
The fielder shall not attempt to put out a runner occupying a base by using excessive force to push them off the occupied base.
What is the effect of this action by the defensive player?
Delayed Dead Ball
Obstruction
Eject the Defensive Player
without warning
All of the answers
How many bases are awarded for a fair batted ball that gets lodged or blocked?
0
1
from the base legally occupied at the time of the pitch
2
from the base legally occupied at the time of the pitch
3
from the base legally occupied at the time of the pitch
How many bases are awarded to baserunners
when a pitched ball gets lodged or blocked?
0
1
from the base legally occupied at the time of the pitch
2
from the base legally occupied at the time of the pitch
3
from the base legally occupied at the time of the pitch
How many bases are awarded for a live thrown ball
that crosses into dead-ball territory?
0
1
at the time of the throw
2
at the time of the throw
3
at the time of the throw
If a declared infield fly is
dropped intentionally or allowed to fall untouched to the ground,
which of the following is true?
ball is live
batter is out
all force plays
are removed
base runners
may advance
with liability
to be put out
All of the answers
Which is NOT a type of obstruction?
Catcher Obstruction
Fake Tag
Offensive Obstruction
Fielder
Obstruction
The catcher must be in position (in the catcher's box) to receive the pitch
in order for a legal pitch to be thrown by the pitcher.
True
False
All pitches must be legally pitched to the catcher to intentionally walk a batter.
True
False
Intentionally violating the rule in order to walk the batter without pitching shall not result in a ball being awarded to the batter, but each base runner shall advance one base without liability to be put out.
True
False
The catcher must return the ball directly to the pitcher
after a foul tip and each pitch not contacted, except:
to play on a
base runner
after a strikeout
errant throw intended for
the pitcher
all of the answers
