Held on to it long enough, What does that mean? If you are diving after a ball for it to be a catch, I have always thought that you had to have control over it after you hit the ground. That's the way I have always seen it called. For example; If fielder is laid out or jumps for a ball and catches it but is in the air for a second or two and as she hits the ground it comes out that's a catch? Not to me it isn't.