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Originally Posted by newump
how much effort do you require the batter to make to avoid getting hit? i've only denied a HBP if the batter actually did something to encourage getting hit - or if the pitch was actually in the strike zone and it struck a batter hanging out over the plate. i'm giving him the base even if he freezes and lets the pitch hit him. how can you expect a kid to hang in there against a curve ball if he has to worry about bailing out so the pitch doesn't hit him?
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The only one I had this year (other than a couple at 10U) was on a batter who tossed her bat back to her dugout as the pitch hit her. It was so slow that she had time to see it, decide to let it hit her, and ditch the bat before it got there. No one complained at all.