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Old Thu Jul 26, 2012, 01:24pm
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Originally Posted by Manny A View Post
Until you started this thread, I assumed ALL rule sets in both softball and baseball prohibited a batter from intentionally contacting a foul batted ball a second time if the umpire judged the ball could go fair.

How about this: Does ASA allow the BR to intentionally contact a foul batted ball with her bat or body as she's running up the first base line if it appears it's going to go into fair territory? If not, where's that consistency you mentioned?
Um ... isn't this exactly the scenario we're talking about? (And yes, body is the same)
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