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Old Wed Jul 09, 2014, 08:00pm
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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn View Post


I believe the foul tip rule was created so that we are to treat a ball that was touched by the bat so slightly that it caused nearly no change in the ball's trajectory as if it was not touched by the bat at all.

I don't believe the foul tip rule was meant to be warped to create this no-mans-land of a fouled batted ball that cannot be caught for an out.

I also recognize that I'm in the extreme minority in that opinion.
So in Play #2, you would bang the batter out even if the count was 2-1?
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