>>I just watched the play. That was the right call. The infield fly rule doesn't require the ball to be in the infield. It only requires that an infielder can make the play with ordinary effort. It doesn't matter where the ball is as long as it's in fair territory. That was an easy play for Holliday. Hardly even took 'ordinary' effort on his part. The fact that he skittered off at the last second doesn't change anything. I agree with the ump on this one.
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>From the furor it aroused, I thought I was the only one who agreed with the call. It appeared to me that the infielder had settled under the ball; was prepared to make the catch (which fits what I know of as the definition for the rule); and veered away when he was called off by the outfielder

Yeah. Most people think the ball has to be in the infield, which is incorrect. It must be routinely handleable by someone who started the play playing in the infield. So even if it's an outfielder, if he was playing shallow enough to have been considered to be playing in the infield, he is treated as an infielder for the purpose of the rule.

I'm not sure the outfielder actually called him off. From what I read, I think he may have heard footsteps.