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Originally Posted by shickenbottom
Armadillo Blue, I have pasted 6.05(h) below. This should answer your question.
6.05(h) After hitting or bunting a fair ball, his bat hits the ball a second time in fair territory. The ball is dead and no runners may advance. If the batter-runner drops his bat and the ball rolls against the bat in fair territory and, in the umpire’s judgment, there was no intention to interfere with the course of the ball, the ball is alive and in play;
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This rule is exactly what I said I found. By this rule the batter should be declared out. He was no longer holding the bat and the bat hit the ball in fair territory, not the other way around.
So I guess my question is, would you call it an out or would you go with the foul ball which is what I think is the "expected call?"