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Crow for lunch
Well... I'm eating crow.... and it's lunch time too! Tastes like $@@##&*% crow too!
I don't see a similar exception in the Ordinary Baseball Rules.
6.05h A batter is out when
(h) After hitting or bunting a fair ball, his bat hits the ball a second time in fair territory. The ball is dead and no runners may advance. If the batter runner drops his bat and the ball rolls against the bat in fair territory and, in the umpire's judgment, there was no intention to interfere with the course of the ball, the ball is alive and in play; ...
7.09b It is interference by a batter or a runner when:
(b) After hitting or bunting a fair ball, his bat hits the ball a second time in fair territory. The ball is dead and no runners may advance. If the batter runner drops his bat and the ball rolls against the bat in fair territory and, in the umpire's judgment, there was no intention to interfere with the course of the ball, the ball is alive and in play;
Perhaps someone with some more rules guidance (Jaska/Roder, etc.) can guide us. Little League is probably using OBR and not NFHS. So perhaps out is the correct call. Personnally I would have done just like you did, Sneiderer.
I think I'll learn something here... bring it on.
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"There are no superstar calls. We don't root for certain teams. We don't cheat. But sometimes we just miss calls." - Joe Crawford
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