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Originally Posted by SAump
OBR 6.08 (2) The batter makes no attempt to avoid being touched by the ball; ...
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Which, of course, is different from NCAA...
I was working the CCIW Tournament a couple weeks ago and had the elimination game (a.k.a. padded room game)--those are always fun,
NOT--between Augustana College and Elmhurst College. Elmhurst is trailing 16-10 in the bottom of the 9th and they're up to bat. Augustana walks the first guy then hits the second guy, and now we've got runners on first and second with no outs. Great. The game's already past 3 hours.
The next guy comes up and on the first pitch he gets plunked. The pitch was clearly well inside and he just stood there and watched as it glanced off his left upper arm. I award him first and the bases are loaded with nobody out. Augustana's head coach comes out and yells at me, "He's gotta make an attempt to get out of the way of that pitch! He can't stand there and let it hit him!" Of course, I calmly explained to him that when the pitched ball is within the lines of the batter's box, which it was, he does
not have to avoid the pitch; he just can't lean into it.
Elmhurst scored 4 runs and wound up short as I rang up a batter for the final out--
SOMEone had to end that damn game--final score 16-14.