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Originally posted by blueskysblue
So, you're saying a team can start with ten players, plus the EP (eleven total), lose a player, for any reason other than ejection, and still bat ten, without taking an out?

Could that same team start with nine, plus an out in the tenth slot, and still have an EP?

You see, I'm combatting, here in my league, that old "standard" start with nine, finish with nine, or start with ten, finish with ten . . . I have to be really clear on it myself, before I can expect everyone else to be.

Thanks,

No, just the opposite. I'm saying that the EP can never just disappear. By rule, the slot in the batting order must remain and if the team goes shorthanded, an out must be assessed.

This isn't difficult, almost as easy as the infield fly.