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Old Mon Apr 28, 2014, 10:34am
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Originally Posted by jmkupka View Post
It stayed on my mind all day though since the B/R was put out by 60ft on a foul ball, and I was equating this case to my seeing a batted ball hit the batter that my partner did not.
Apples and oranges, or different breeds of apples...
Definitely As&Os. Fair/foul is not a shared responsibility. It belongs to one umpire or the other, based upon what you agreed to at pre-game. As BU in A, you're only responsibility for fair/foul is behind you typically.

But the call on the batter being hit by a batted ball is a shared responsibility. The BU can kill it should his/her partner not see it, and then the PU decides if the batter was in the box or not.
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