Thread: Fair or Foul?
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Old Mon May 29, 2006, 02:25am
UmpireErnie UmpireErnie is offline
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Originally Posted by Mountaineer
If a player is touched by a batted ball while still in the batters box, I declare "foul ball". Does anyone call "dead ball"?
But you might not have a foul ball. The ball hit the batter a 2nd time so yes, yes, you have a dead ball and should call it as such. But was the batter still in the batter's box or was she already out of it running to 1B?

I say "Dead ball... foul!" becuase that gives you another moment to think about what just happened. This is especially true if you are the BU, and you see the ball hit the bat, hit the gound, then touch the batter a 2nd time as she is leaving the box.
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