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Originally Posted by jpc2119
If you notice an illegal starting position, allow the pitcher to pitch, and the batter hits the ball, and then you call him out for being out of the box, you have opened a nasty can of worms for yourself.
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I hope everyone here knows that there's a huge difference between an improper starting position, and calling a batter out for an illegally batted ball. HUGE, and different in many rule sets.
If a batter is outside box before the pitch, I'll move them in, especially if they're crowding the plate, and blocking my view. I'll enforce the back line if someone is beefing about it. But if a foot is entirely out to the box to start with, or touching the plate for some rule sets, I'd hope we'd all catch that.