Answer to second one-question test

[Carl Childress]

Originally posted by oregonblue
Further, your reference to OBR 8.05(b) is not on point because it only addresses a feint to first FROM THE RUBBER without completing a throw. It is, IMHO, not relevant to the issue involving bases to which a pitcher may feint a throw.

Lastly, again IMHO, NCAA rules are almost as strange as Fed. Really, a rule about erasing lines of the batters box???

1. Thanks for the compliment.

2. I don't have time to continue to discuss what seems so obvious to serious students of the game. In brief:

8.05(b) and (c) are a tandem, sir. You can't have the one without the other. Each explains part of the issue at hand. 8.05(b) explains that a feint includes a throwing motion. 8.05(c) expalins that a pitcher must step toward a base before throwing. The FED book says before throwing or feinting.

Can anything be clearer than that? The citations are not only directly on point, they are dispositive.

3. Finally: Until this coming season an NCAA batter completely within the lines of his batter's box did not have to avoid a pitch to be HBP and awarded first. The catcher even now must crouch with both feet inside the lines of the catcher's box. That seems ample reason to forbid players to erase the lines.

Wouldn't you agree on second glance that NCAA 3-6i is, indeed, a perfectly rational rule?

OTOH: Check out OBR 3.06 if you want to become acquainted with a truly bizarre rule, one that is never enforced.