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Old Wed Jul 19, 2017, 03:02pm
Manny A Manny A is offline
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Originally Posted by youngump View Post
With no pitch intentional walks, I would think the safest thing to do would be to immediately take the free out. You don't want them to get time to figure out what's going on.
Pretty sure that in fast pitch and modified fast pitch, the pitcher must pitch to walk the batter intentionally.
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