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Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve
My question has always been,
If a batter places the bat in the strike zone, but that isn't where the ball is, how can anyone consider or confuse that with an attempt to contact the ball with the bat?? Wouldn't simple logic suggest that an attempt to contact the ball would include attempting to place the bat where the ball is, not where it isn't??
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This is why I don't like the rule.
But we all know that some bunters have better techniques than others. Many lower-level players don't "get it" and simply "hope" that the ball hits the bat.
Now I know we are not in the mind-reading business, and apparently none of us wrote this rule, nor wouldn't have written this rule given the opportunity, but who knows what was in the minds of the framers of this rule.