In a 16U game today, the batter hit a deep flyball that hit top of the fence and then bounded back into fair territory.
Parents for the batting team wanted it ruled a home run, because "it hit the top of the fence!"
I think in MLB there is a yellow stripe painted around the top that designates a homerun -- is that true?
In the game referred to above, if you're wondering how it could hit the top of the fence and bound back into the playing field ... it was a chain-link fence with a horizontal cylindrical metal "top".
Ump ruled that the batter gets whatever he can get -- no automatic home run.
Is the "top of the fence" issue really a non-issue?
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