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Originally posted by umpduck11
Seven year-old local league, where my son plays, using
Juggs-type pitching machine. Batter gets 7 pitches to put
it into play. If batted ball strikes pitching machine, batter
re-starts his entire count! So it is punishing the defense
because the batter hit the machine. There was a movement to
ammend the rule to make it a deadball/no pitch, but it failed.
Park board reasoned that they know better than the coaches.
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A long time ago I was league president in a league that used a pitching machine at the 7-8 year old group. We ruled a dead ball single when a batter hit a ball that struck the pitching machine.