scoring question

[Roger Greene]

The improper batter is removed from the base. His bat did not "occur". The only notation in the scorebook is that the proper batter is out for failing to bat in his turn, and the next bater is the batter whose name follows the batter who was called out for failing to bat.

The only execption to this would be if so many batters had batted out of order, and the batter whose name followed that of the batter who was called out for failing to bat in his proper turn was on base, then he is skipped and the batter after him would bat. He would lose his turn this trip through the batting order. (This is nearly a third world play, so most umpires should never need to apply the execption.)

Roger Greene