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Originally posted by baseballfan
sir_eldren hit the nail on the head:
"Does the AB count as an AB, or is it tossed out when he comes to the plate again to start the new inning? We all know that he gets a fresh count, but what comes of the record of his last AB?"
Still haven't heard anyone give an answer to this.
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It's pretty much gone--it is what it is. The rules don't give any thought to whether an at-bat can span innings, etc. I've always seen an incomplete plate appearance as no at-bat, kind of like when a third-inning rainout is "no game" (OBR 4.10)--but again, the rules don't really address this largely rhetorical issue.
For statistical purposes, in the previous innning, any pitches that were thrown count against the pitcher's pitch count, but nothing else would be recorded for the incomplete plate appearance.
P-Sz