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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
Well ... I don't "want" anything, and I see your point here, although I do have to wonder what convoluted running strategy the batter was using if her foot ended up over home plate after bunting, in the time it takes for a bunted ball to go straight down and straight up to, well, foot height. Doesn't seem realistic. seems that most bunts that hit the batter hit them in the chest (and usually within the confines of the batters box - after bunting, it would require great feats of superhuman strength to get OUT of the box before the ball could bounce straight down and then straight up.
But the two feet out standard will NEVER be met - people running very very rarely have two feet on the ground at all, and this would imply a BR who realizes she's about to be hit by the batted ball merely has to leap to avoid being called out.
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I think you are missing the concept of both feet.
We are not saying both feet touching at the same time as the contact or even concurrently, just that each foot has to have touched the ground outside the batting box at some point after the ball is batted.
IOW, a second step with the "trail" foot, that touches the ground outside the box.
IOW 2, if the last place the "trail" foot touched before contact with the batted ball is in the box, then batter is still in the box.