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Greymule, while I understand your answer is probably based on a safety issue, I don't believe you could back up the answer to the coach with a rule. I'm not sure you could use the guidelines provided to stop him. If a runner wants to slow herself down by carrying a bat, go for it, she's not going too far. If the batter wants to take practice swings on the way to 1st, she'll probably be out and learn the lesson quickly. Or else, you'll be able to call some cheap outs, more than likely.
If the runner did actually run with the bat in a dangerous fashion, I'd call dead ball, invoke a interference rule and call her out. Then I'd have another talk with the coach and say that ain't gonna happen again.
[Edited by TexBlue on Feb 22nd, 2004 at 11:38 PM]
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