[Tru_in_Blu]

Hey, slow pitch guys...

I was doing church league slow pitch last week on a field with no fence.

Visitors were launching balls over the outfielders' heads for the first couple of innings. Defense finally decided to play deep. So the offense decides that since they're playing deep to basically poke base hits over the infielders.

One guy who can really go deep took a half swing at a pitch and popped up to shallow RF. Defense converged but the ball fell for a hit. D-coach now complains that the batter can't do that. I asked "do what, coach?" He told me the batter has to take a full swing, can't check his swing.

I told the coach that check swings are not dis-allowed, that only bunting or chopping down on the ball are dis-allowed. In my judgment, the batter did not bunt, nor did he chop down on the ball.

If anything, I'd describe his swing as something you might see in a badminton game softly serving the birdie [ball] to a desired location.

I checked the rule book after the game and didn't find anything different.

Anything illegal going on here?

Thanx.