[greymule]

I've been trying to think of parallel situations and reasoning. If the batter is in front of the box (out of the box toward the pitcher), she could be hit with a curve ball that was inside when it made contact but still had a chance to become a strike. And if a right-handed batter (the girl in the play I saw was left-handed) left the box in front of the plate in a similar show-bunt-and-then-lay-off move, we'd have to call a dead ball strike. If a batter is hit after backing out of the box in an attempt to avoid a pitch behind her, that is HBP.

Obviously, the same criteria about trying to avoid have to apply.

Glad to know the NCAA rule since I am doing NCAA this year. (I don't have a rule book, but they said to download the document from their site. Until recently, the on-line book stopped somewhere in the middle, just before obstruction!)