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Have any of you arguing this even bothered to read the book?
"On a swing or attempted bunt, touch the batter or his bat with a runner on third base trying to score by means of a squeeze play or a steal"
Now what part of swing or steal don't you understand!
"The runner shall be awarded home plate and the batter shall also be awarded first base on the obstruction. The ball is dead."
Like I said, it is a baseball rule that applies to a steal of any base. It has been in both NFHS BB and SB books for years. Three or four years ago it was modified to affect only a steal of home and brought into the ASA book.
Why - I don't know. I think that it is impossible to recognize an intended steal in the less than one second time it takes the ball to reach an obstructed batter. I don't think that we will ever call it. I just threw it out here as a fun thing - an obscure rule that most of us have never seen, and will never think about again after this post finally dies.
WMB
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