Foul Ball (oops)

[David B]

Had one of those first tonight and thought I'd share just to make sure that you don't get caught like I did.

Batter squares to bunt and bunts the ball directly to the ground where it bounces straight up and hits the bat again.

I immediately called foul ball and no one said anything except a fan who said "you can't hit it twice JJ".

But as I thought about it, the batter did not intentionally hit the ball with the bat and the ball was in fair territory, so we should have had a fair ball and nothing else except for ???'s from the defense.

But, the batter is also in the batter's box. So I remember in FED that this makes it a foul ball.

So my question since I don't have my OBR books/manuals etc., at home, is this ruling the same in OBR.

FED covers it in 8-4-1d EXCEPTION.

We also had another bunt which was three feet foul and suddenly hits something and bounces back fair. Just a reminder for all of those umps who keep calling the ball foul as soon as it leaves the bat. (my partner did this three times in the first game)

Thanks for the help
David