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Originally Posted by BigUmp56
This is easily explained. The umpire that made this call was ... ignorant ... when it comes to the rules of the game.
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Maybe, maybe not.
Some leagues have a local rule that a batter is out for throwing a bat (perhaps after a warning).
Maybe the game in the OP was played under these rules; maybe the umpire was used to umpiring under these rules (in which case he's still wrong, but it's understandable).