Mon Jun 03, 2013, 11:42am
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Originally Posted by Andy
A variation on this question that came up this weekend.
No runners, 3-1 count on the batter, pitch is swung at and missed, F2 does not catch the ball, batter takes off for first (thinking U3K), F2 retrieves ball and throws to first.
BU kills the play and awards Ball 4 to the batter for F2 failing to return the ball directly to the pitcher. His reasoning was that there was no play at first, so the ball shouldn't have been thrown there.
My thought is that there is no way that I am rewarding that batter that ran when she shouldn't have.
Thoughts?
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Possibly technically correct, mistakes not being one of the listed exceptions; but certainly not in the intent. 
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