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Originally Posted by chapmaja
This was in regards the initial topic of the dropped third strike hitting the catcher than bouncing back off the batter.
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You're missing Irish's point.
You don't have a batter on an uncaught third strike. By rule, you now have a batter-runner. That's why you cannot use rule 7 to make your point, because rule 8 applies to batter-runners. There is nothing in rule 7-4-4 that applies to batter-runners.
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Last edited by Manny A; Sun May 12, 2013 at 06:54am.
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