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Originally posted by Rich Ives
Because it is a legal attempt at hitting a pitch.
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Okay, so all I have to do as a batter, who can't get a hit any other way, is to throw my bat at the catcher whenever I want to get on base, because I technically am legally attempting to hit the pitch. Man, my OBP would be 1.000, because I would do it every time.
Here we had a pitchout, and the catcher had left his box to field the pitch, the batter throws his bat at the ball, but misses the ball, and somehow gets lucky and hits the mitt instead, and THEN gets rewarded for his inability to hit the ball. Bad rule.