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NCAA Baseball Rules Committee recommended making the video replay rule a permanent rule for the 2017 season for the schools that decide to implement it. This will likely only matter to the upper level programs which have their games webcasted or broadcasted in HD. A majority of college baseball programs across the country currently do not webstream their games or have a stream incapable of HD standards making replay useless.
The following conditions are when replay can be used:
- Deciding if an apparent home run is fair or foul.
- Deciding whether a batted ball left the playing field for a home run or a ground-rule double.
- Spectator-interference plays.
- Deciding if a batted ball is fair or foul.
- Deciding whether a fielder did or did not make a catch on a fair batted ball hit into the outfield or on any foul ball.
- Deciding scoring plays at the plate.
- Determining if a player should be ejected for a collision (illegal or malicious slides).
- Determining if a run scored on timing plays. (An example would be to determine if a base runner scored before the last out of an inning was recorded at another base).
You can check out the full article by the NCAA by clicking here.
