[quote=bob jenkins][quote=fitump56]
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
For those who side with Fittysix and Mueller, remember this: A pitch that is not struck at and not in the strike zone is a ball.
Fed 7.2.1B "In bunting, any movement of the bat toward the ball when the ball is over or near the plate area, is a strike. The mere holding of the bat in the strike zone is not an attempt to hit the ball."
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So if B vertically raises his bat to, let's say, shoulder height on a an inside drop curve, that breaks slightly off the plate but well below his bat, he gets a "Ball"?
I guess so.
What if he holds the bat on the same pitch, outside the strike zone, again not "to" the ball, because it is outside the strike zone, he gets a "Ball"?
How much bat = bat? All, part the tip end?
Ill defined rules of OBR, which ought to be tossed into the garbage and totally rewritten anyway, need common sense interps. Here's mine.
"AN IDIOT WHO LEAVES HIS BAT TO BUNT at our near the plate IS ASSUMED TO BE STRIKING THE BASEBALL ....as far as I am concerned. Since I have nor will never see a B who holds a bat completely still and in accordance with above BS rule, I got strikes to call.