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HS Softball game. BR hits a spinning little popup that lands in front of home plate. As BR is sprinting to 1B, balls spins back and hits F2, who by this time is in (the front of) the RH batter's box. Ump calls "foul ball" and when questioned, draws the extention of the foul line through the batter's box to home plate and says F2 was behind this line when she touched the ball. Leaving aside the issue that it is the ball that matters and not where F2 is standing, do umps really have to make this call without the benefit of the line drawn in? Or do umps commonly call any ball/player contact in batter's box as foul, regardless of whether the player is offense or defense?
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