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Old Tue Jun 07, 2005, 07:38am
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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"If now we will continue to see umpires call this poorly."

Change your word from poorly to correctly, and we agree.

A batter swinging (slapping) the way you describe can hit the ball out of the infield. Why do you want this to be a bunt attempt? I don't understand the motivation.

The reason for the rule that makes a bunted foul a strike is so that batters can't set up like a bunt, continually bunt every strike foul, and wait for 4 bad pitches to draw a walk.

The batters you describe are making legitimate attempts to get on base. I completely don't see why you are motivated to call this an out, and why it irks you so to see umpires calling this correctly and by the book.
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