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Originally posted by greymule
OK, rwest. How would you rule if a 2-strike pitch hits the ground, the batter swings and ticks it, and it goes directly into the catcher's mitt?
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Under rules where a pitch that hits the ground in front of the plate is still a live ball; swinging and missing is a strike. "Foul tipping" is the same as a miss, so this is strike three. It is not necessarily an out as it was UNCAUGHT. The out then depends on what Mike called the "occupation status" of 1st, the number of outs and if the batter (now BR) is allowed to run whether the defense makes the out.
As we non-typists need acronyms for everything, "occupation status of 1st" is hereby "OS1".
