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Illegal Pitch! For the pitcher to throw that much of a screwball she must have been outside the 24" plate width.
Actually, this is a pretty tough question. By your own statement, the ball did not hit the batter while the ball was in the strike zone, nor did the batter swing at it; so the logical assumption, using ASA 74 g & i, would be hit batter.
However, rule 8.1.F is worded such that if the ball is not called a strike, the batter becomes a batter-runner. Therefore, if it is a strike, then the batter goes nowhere.
In that I don't know, I do know what I would do. Being a good umpire, I hesitate making calls, by which time the batter has been hit, at which time I immediately call dead ball and send batter to 1B. If anyone asks, the pitch was a ball.
WMB
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