Thread: Overruling ?
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Old Fri Jan 11, 2008, 11:49am
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Originally Posted by TxUmp

...He was coaching his players to lean over so that their entire upper body was over the plate, well into the strike zone.

He later got an intrepretation from the state rules interpreter that so long as the batter's feet were in the batter's box, the tactic was legal.
That is just awful. You can't blame the coach though. Has that interpretation been changed? Hopefully, the interpreter has.
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