Fri Apr 08, 2005, 12:32pm
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Get away from me, Steve.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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Originally posted by David Emerling
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Originally posted by bob jenkins
I thnk there's some MLB interp about going back to get more pine-tar (I'm too lazy to look for that now, and I could be remembering incorrectly).
Assuming I'm correct in what I remember, I wouldn't apply it to getting a new bat at any non-porfessional game.
So, what happened, Dave -- did someone try to apply this "rule" to your team?
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No, this did not happen in any of our games. It just popped into my head. I've seen it done, though.
So, if a kid goes up there with the intent to bunt with his "bunting bat" and then, after he gets two strikes, he decides to switch to his "hitting bat" - that would be permissible?
I'm inclined to believe that it is not.
I would think that a player would need a more compelling reason to make a bat change other than, "I just want a different bat."
Yet, I don't think there would be any rule prohibiting it unless an umpire ruled that it is an unnecessary delay to the game.
Could the right fielder request time to switch gloves even if there is nothing wrong with his current glove that he has been using?
David Emerling
Memphis, TN
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Who are we, as umpires, to say there isn't something wrong with the bat or glove? I'm letting either the fielder switch or the batter switch in the instances you mention. Anything else, would be OOO, in my opinion.
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