Untouched pop-up ruling

Strike2 said:

Those really high IF pop-ups in the wind can be anything but routine. Totally agree with sun and lights not causing an "error", but if you saw the Big 12 Championship game between OU and Baylor, a big insurance run came on an OU fly ball single to RF where the Baylor fielder lost it in the sun. While not chargeable as an error, that fielder wasn't wearing sunglasses. Drives me nuts when a player loses a ball in the sun because they won't wear decent shades.

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Comocoach said:

Next sunny day, if you get a chance, put on your shades. Then, go look directly at the sun. Just for few seconds.

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Strike2 said:

Uhh...I've have caught many, many fly balls in the sun with my shades on that I would never have seen with bare eyeballs. Not sure of your point...granted, if a ball is dead-on in the sun, it's really tough to break out, but a good pair of polarized sunglasses will allow you to see things that are pretty close. Try it sometime!

The one time, and I mean the ONE time that DD failed to catch a fly ball that landed on her, the ball was centered in the sun, she lost it in close, and it hit her in the stomach. The next inning, same bad sun angle in LF, she said that she caught it without seeing much of it...the center-fielder talked her onto it.

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