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Originally posted by mcrowder
Didn't we just beat the heck out of this one recently?
Offbeat answer:
The pitcher threw a pitch which did not cross the plate or reach the foul lines. Balk.
However, the batter is not allowed to, through his actions, cause a balk. So instead of a balk, you have a no-pitch.
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mc, I don't like the call of no pitch here. I certainly agree that we can't award batter 1B if he's out of the box when hit by the pitch, and the JEA language of "legal batting position" makes sense to me. I can sell that to a coach.
Further, I can't see even rewarding the offense with a no-pitch here: if the batter HAD made contact with the ball when clearly out of the box, he would have been out (though if I'm PU I probably don't see that he's out of the box - but we're trying to get the right call by the rules here).
Still, how do you call a pitch that never reaches the plate? I'd like to say I'd call it according to what it would have been had it reached the plate, but I'm thinking that jenkins will start posting "rule reference please" again... and I don't have one...
So, where does that leave us? No pitch? I've got no rule reference for that, either...