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Originally posted by ysong
Would you do me a favor again and, honestly,  , tell me something: as a natural English speaker, when you read the part of the rule "the opponent bats the ball", do you naturally, automatically infer that not only the opponent bats the ball, he bats the ball "away" also? in other word, the word "bat" naturally implies "bat it away", unless stated otherwise?
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You know, I am a native American English speaker, and I've had trouble with that very sentence. Although my problem came from "the other side of the coin." If a dribbler "picks up" her dribble, and is standing holding the ball with both hands, and a defender comes up and slaps the ball good and hard, is that a bat, and does the dribbler now get another dribble? I'm with you, ysong, that the rule is poorly written.