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Originally Posted by mcrowder
Very different sitch. If the swinging of the bat is somewhat near the timing of the ball coming through, you're probably just ruling a strike.
If you truly feel that there was no attempt to hit the ball at all, and only an attempt to interfere .... don't you think that is not a strike, but rather interference?
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Absolutely no attempt to hit the ball. Obviously, the 'intent' (we don't have intent anymore, do we?) was to 'freeze' the middle fielders and and the catcher, hoping to give the runner a better opportunity to steal.
If that act could be construed as interfence, wouldn't fake bunting be as well?