Wed Aug 25, 2010, 03:35pm
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Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve
Oops; missed the part about FED rules. And with my state being in FED softball season, you would think I would be paying better attention.
Big Slick is absolutely correct; I gave the ASA answer. In ASA, B5 would bat next.
The FED answer is, again, different. 7-4-12 makes clear that the batter B4 is not out when a runner R3 interferes with a foul fly, just the runner. So, it is a dead ball, foul ball, and the B4's at-bat has not ended. With R3 making the 3rd out, same batter B4 starts the next inning.
I like the correction made by ASA on this one; seems a fairer result, to me. I could see this being done intentionally, as a strategic option, to keep a more dangerous batter up (with less than two outs), up to start the next inning, or to keep a better runner placed at 2nd if the next inning is to be a tiebreaker inning.
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What about Mike's point:
what would you have done with B4 had there been less than 2 outs. There's where the answer comes from.
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