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Old Thu Aug 07, 2014, 09:05am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally Posted by bsaucer View Post
If a pitched ball contacts any part of the bat (held by the batter), is it necessarily a batted ball? Does it always result in a fair/foul ball, or a caught fly, or caught foul tip, or possibly even an illegally batted ball?

Suppose the batter backs out of the box to avoid being hit by pitch, and the ball hits the knob of the bat. Is he out (IBB)?
It can be a batted ball, but it's not going to be an illegally batted ball.

I'm pretty sure there's some interp on that somewhere.
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