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Originally posted by JRSooner
My son played in a State Regional Playoff game last night. Our pitcher jammed this RH batter on his hands and the ball bounded toward 3B in foul territory. The ball hit the edge of the grass off the basepath and started bounding back towards fair territory. Then F5 who was standing with both feet in FOUL territory was trying to get it before it went back into fair territory, and it hit his foot which BTW, as I said was in FOUL territory, and it took almost a 45 degree angle hop towards F6. Now, not being the coach I'm not privy to the explanation of the umpires but, I saw it hit his foot, our local sportswriter saw it hit his foot, our coach saw it hit his foot, and there was no way any part of his body was in fair territory at the time, and I find it hard to believe that anyone including the umpires could have thought it didn't hit him after seeing the unnatural bounce the ball took after it hit him. Now am I mistaken? I thought if a ball touched ANY player while in foul territory it was a foul ball. I can't stand the excuse I didn't see it, I mean there's 4 umpires out there and the balls going at one angle, and then goes at a 45 degree angle I mean get a clue! I'm sure it's not that they don't know the rule that it's foul if it touches someone in foul territory, I mean this is HS playoff baseball!
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JR,
You say the ball hit the batter's hands. If the batter made an attempt at the pitch, I have a strike, dead ball and if it's the third strike the batter is out. Any runners on base would be returned to the last base they occupied at the time of the pitch. Sounds like a HTBT call.
Michael
[Edited by MichaelVA2000 on May 27th, 2004 at 03:24 PM]