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If the bat had been left in the base path and runner coming home had tripped, fell and broke something the umpire would still be sued, probably for deliberately putting the runner in harms way by inaction or some such thing.
I do pick up bats in the base path but I don't toss them. I hold onto them with my free hand and at my side until the play is over. If I have to make a call I let the bat drop to the ground beside me.
The only time I don't pick up the bat is if the runner coming from 3rd is so close to home that I might interfere with her if I try to get the bat. In that case I yell to the runner to look out for the bat and point to it.
For those in this group who think this is NOT a litigious society, this lawsuit and its reinstatement prove otherwise.
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