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Old Wed May 23, 2007, 07:59am
CajunNewBlue CajunNewBlue is offline
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Originally Posted by Dakota
If the bat is merely moving forward at the same speed as the body of the batter, it is still a bunt. If the end / barrel of the bat is moving faster than the batter / handle of the bat, it is a swing and not a bunt.

That is why one is called a drag bunt and the other is called a slap. A drag bunt is still a bunt.
Im pretty sure in the NFHS rulebook they dismissed the "drag" bunt into non-existence... now there is just "bunting" and "slap hitting"
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