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Originally Posted by UMP25
A swing where the batter has to stretch and stick his bat out with no expected desire of contacting the ball for a hit is not a "legitimate" attempt to hit the ball. It's an attempt to mess with the catcher. The batter knew exactly what he was doing yesterday. These guys aren't stupid, you know. They try this schit all the time.
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EXCEPT that the pitch was very hittable. Batter hit the back of F2's hand without stepping out of box or doing anything unusual - no way to do that unless he could hit the pitch.
F2 stepped up to the front of the LH batters box. Pitch was not very far outside & easily reached by the batter, who hit F2 in the hand IN FRONT of the plate.
IMO bad bad bad call by PU.