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Old Wed Apr 04, 2012, 12:50pm
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Originally Posted by bigjohn View Post
The committee is concerned that batters are still attempting to be hit by pitches and earn an undeserved awarded base by ""taking one for the team."" Rule 7-3-4 clearly prohibits a batter allowing himself to be hit by a pitch.

I don't see anything in this interpretation about the pitch being in the batter's box or out of the batter's box!
That's not an interpretation, it's a statement of concern. And you clearly don't understand the last sentence in it, which is what I explained to you.
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