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Finally got first game of the season out of the way. Big school varsity game between two average teams. Shaking rust and cobwebs out all game long. Shocked that I flinched the first time a high hard one came right at the eyeballs. Nerves of steel are looking a little more like plastic.
Plastic was involved in one of our unusual plays. Fastball right at the batters head. She leans back slightly and whack! Ball bounds towards fence and I call Foul. Offense yelps! I ask partner, hit helmet or bat? (LH batter, and he was in A position.) Said that he could not tell. I reviewed the play in my mind and said, to me it sounded more like the ball hitting plastic than aluminum. Do you agree? He did, so I reversed my decision based on sound, and sent the batter to 1B.
Another hit batter, another problem. RH batter squares to bunt. Ball inside belt high. As batter pulls back she drops right hand off bat and down into path of ball and gets hit right on the knuckles. As she was hopping around I had a couple seconds to review and this is what I saw. She put her hand in the path of the ball, but she didnt do it deliberately, and when she did, she could not get out of the way. I sent her to 1B. What do you think?
WMB
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