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"It seems to me that he must make an effort to hit the ball"
Seems to me that you are traveling down a very slippery slope here. What do you call on a waaaaaay wide pitch that the batter couldn't hit with a 40" bat, but still swings at. How many pitches in the dirt have you seen that are swung at and the bat is nowhere near the ball?
So we have a high pitch that is swung at and missed. How high? How high was the swing? By how much did the bat miss the ball? THEN - by how much lower can the pitch be and the batter will swing at it and you'll call it a strike? One foot lower? Two foot lower? 6.4983 feet lower?
BTW - the FED rule relates to a dropped pitch that must be hittable for the batter to swing. If it comes near the plate, the batter can swing, and yes, be called for the 3rd strike and she can run. If the ball will not reach the plate, then it is called a ball whether the batter swings or not.
WMB
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