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Old Thu Mar 01, 2012, 07:08pm
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Originally Posted by mbcrowder View Post
Not if you read the parenthetical as describing the immediately preceding noun (the batters box) and not, as you did, the entire phrase.
The immediately preceding noun is modified by a preposition. I read the parenthetical as describing the prepositional phrase (out of the batter's box), not just the noun.
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