Thread: Bunting the ball twice
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Old Tue May 18, 2004, 12:18pm
DownTownTonyBrown DownTownTonyBrown is offline
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Thumbs down WRONG
The batter is not out!

The correct call is DEAD BALL.

Then, if the batter is still in the box, (as you stated)and the second hit is unintentional (as you stated) the ball is ruled FOUL BALL and runners return to last base touched. This happens fairly often when a bunted ball bounces straight down, hits the plate, and bounces straight back up into the held bat, and the batter hasn't moved yet.

Otherwise, if the batter is out of the box, or the second hit is intentional, then, yes, the batter is ruled out.

I'm looking for rule reference but haven't found it yet...

Aaah found it in FED/NFHS 8-4-1d, Note, and Exception.

I'll look for OBR also...

[Edited by DownTownTonyBrown on May 18th, 2004 at 01:22 PM]
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