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Originally Posted by dash_riprock
IMO, J/R is a very carefully worded manual. Evidence that J/R supports your (a) is contained in its example #5 in what does NOT constitute CI: "The batter completely gives up his opportunity to swing or bunt at a pitch." If J/R supported your (b), I believe it would simply state: "The batter does not attempt to swing or bunt at the pitch."
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You mentioned this example before, but I didn't see the logic of it. This is an example of a case that is NOT CI, which can only be so helpful in determining whether a different case IS CI.
So I guess that this is saying that the only way NOT to call CI on this is if the batter "completely gives up his opportunity to swing or bunt." How would he do that? By stepping out during the pitch? By taking all the way? By just standing there?
Perhaps you can see how adherents of my reading (b) could glom onto this as supporting their reading. They might think that if the batter doesn't swing, he's given up his opportunity to swing, and so according to J/R this would not constitute CI. I think that this muddies the issue further.