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Old Tue Nov 26, 2013, 08:31am
Manny A Manny A is offline
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Originally Posted by xtremeump View Post
This is the post that I tried to answer. After a PU clears a bat and a thrown ball hits the bat. 2B award at TOT. OH DEAR.
The problem is that your example is incomplete. Someone who isn't familiiar with baseball rules (and there may be a few lurking here) will think that once the thrown ball hits the bat, it's some sort of automatic two-base award, regardless what happens next.

As others have said, you need to include the fact that the ball must subsequently go into DBT after the ball hits the bat. The ball hitting the bat, in and of itself, means nothing.
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