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Brawl hits bat after bunt

• Thread starter slowcelica
• Start date Oct 26, 2020

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• #1

This happened last weekend, girl bunted, and dropped the bat in fair territory in front of the plate. The bat hits the ball, forwards the mound and the pitcher fields it and throws the daughter out at get-go. Umps phone call dead ball and say it's a expressionless ball and requite the batter a strike. What's the right call here? Usssa rules.

• #2

If the batter drops the bat and it is moving and contacts the ball in fair territory, the ball is dead and the batter is out.

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• #iii

Comp is correct as usual. Just in one case the bat stops moving in far territory it becomes part of the field and is no longer an out and is a live ball, correct?

• #4

Same thing happened to DD this weekend. Bat had stopped moving, brawl rolled into and came to rest against bat, pitcher fields the ball and fails to throw DD out in fourth dimension. She was called out for interference and runner advancing to 3rd was sent back to second.

• #5

General rule in fair territory (batter is out of the batter's box), if the ball comes back and hits the bat subsequently information technology came to rest and then it's alive, if the moving bat hits the ball it'due south interference. There may exist more than complexities I'grand missing though.

• #6

General dominion in fair territory (batter is out of the batter'southward box), if the brawl comes dorsum and hits the bat after it came to rest then it's live, if the moving bat hits the ball it'south interference. In that location may be more complexities I'm missing though.

What if the batter is out of the box or does that even matter. I don't remember if she was in or out of the box, but it sounds like the umps made the wrong telephone call, she should have been out both means.

• #vii

What if the batter is out of the box or does that even matter. I don't remember if she was in or out of the box, only information technology sounds like the umps fabricated the incorrect phone call, she should have been out both ways.

This is where many people get tripped up virtually the complexities of a batter vs a batter runner. A batter is protected while in the batters box from a batted ball coming dorsum and hitting either the batter or the batters bat. If this happens it is a expressionless brawl foul and a strike assuming less then two strikes.

However, in one case a batted brawl is in off-white territory, if the concoction/runner initiates contact with the batted ball or the batters bat later being discarded makes contact with the ball while the bat is nonetheless moving it is a dead brawl and the batter runner is out. In one case the bat stops moving it becomes role of the playing field and it would be noting if the ball contacts the bat. Nowhere nether the batter/runner section of the rulebook is the batters box ever mentioned. The batters box provides no protection to a batter/runner.

• #8

Cheers for the caption, sounds like either style she was out. If the bat was moving and hit the ball she'southward out past interference, if information technology wasn't she was thrown out at first anyway.

• #9

Same matter happened to DD this weekend. Bat had stopped moving, brawl rolled into and came to residual confronting bat, pitcher fields the ball and fails to throw DD out in time. She was called out for interference and runner advancing to third was sent back to second.

That appears to be the wrong result. If the bat is non moving and the ball rolls into the bat, the play stays alive and all runners keep advancing at their own gamble. Equally others mentioned, if the bat rolls into the ball, and then it is a dead ball and concoction is out.

• #10

This is where many people get tripped up about the complexities of a concoction vs a batter runner. A batter is protected while in the batters box from a batted brawl coming back and hitting either the concoction or the batters bat. If this happens information technology is a expressionless brawl foul and a strike assuming less then two strikes.

However, once a batted ball is in off-white territory, if the concoction/runner initiates contact with the batted brawl or the batters bat later existence discarded makes contact with the ball while the bat is still moving it is a expressionless brawl and the batter runner is out. Once the bat stops moving it becomes part of the playing field and it would be noting if the ball contacts the bat. Nowhere under the batter/runner section of the rulebook is the batters box always mentioned. The batters box provides no protection to a batter/runner.

Isn't function of the batters box in off-white territory?

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