Where will the ball land?

Python, 143B

import sys
for l in sys.stdin:
 a=l.find('.')
 if a>-1:F=a
 elif F>-1: 
    if'\\/'in l[F-1:F+2]:z
    F+={'\\':1,'/':-1}.get((l+' '*F)[F],0)
print F+1

Using the space/tab indentation trick. I haven't done anything particularly clever here. F is the current index, l is the current line; z is undefined so it throws an exception, which is definitely not a positive integer, handling the \/ situation.


05AB1E, 37 bytes

¶¡ð«ć'.ksvU…/ \yXD>‚èJD„\/Qiõqëнk<X+]>

Input as a multi-line string. Outputs \/ if the ball is stuck.

Try it online or verify all test cases.

Explanation:

¶¡                       # Split the (implicit) input-string on newlines
                         # (work-around instead of `|`, because it will stop at empty lines)
  ð«                     # Add a trailing space to each line (work-around because indexing
                         # -1 in 05AB1E will wrap around to the other side)
    ć                    # Extract head; pop and push the remainder-lines and first line
                         # separated to the stack
     '.k                '# Get the 0-based index of "." in this first line
s                        # Swap to get the remainder-list of lines
v                        # Loop over each line `y`:
 U                       #  Pop and store the top value (the index) in variable `X`
       X                 #  Push the current index `X`
        D>               #  Duplicate it, and increase the copy by 1
          ‚              #  Pair to [X, X+1]
      y    è             #  Index both of those into the current line `y`
            JD           #  Join the two characters together, and duplicate it
              „\/Qi      #  If it's equal to "\/":
                   q     #   Stop the program
                         #   (after which the string is output implicitly as result)
                  ë      #  Else:
                   н     #   Only leave the first character (at index `X`)
  …/ \              k    #   Get its 0-based index in string "/ \"
                     <   #   Decrease it by 1
                      X+ #   And add it to `X`
]                        # After the loop:
 >                       # Increase the top of the stack (`X`) by 1
                         # (after which it's output implicitly as result)