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All for FED rules and it is a batted ball of course...
Fair or Foul? 1. Ball hits home plate and goes fair... 2. Ball hits and stays on home plate... 3. Ball lands and stays in batters box in the upper inside corner so if you were to draw a line from the back tip of home plate to the outside point of first or third base it would be inside that line.... 4. Hits batter while in batters box and goes fair... |
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<i> Originally posted by jesmael
All for FED rules and it is a batted ball of course... Fair or Foul? 1. Ball hits home plate and goes fair... 2. Ball hits and stays on home plate... 3. Ball lands and stays in batters box in the upper inside corner so if you were to draw a line from the back tip of home plate to the outside point of first or third base it would be inside that line.... 4. Hits batter while in batters box and goes fair... </i> Please read FED rule 2-5-1 and if there's something you don't understand then come back. Pete Booth |
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You got good answers here.
Beyond the first two innings, you'll be hard pressed to maintain a clean front line on the box. Just remember the entire plate is in fair territory and the lines go to the back edge of the plate, so the balls you described on or infront of it are fair. The guy who hits it off himself, is an immediate dead ball - foul if he is in the box and out if he is running it out when it hits him. Keep getting better! |
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3. Ball lands and stays in batters box in the upper inside corner so if you were to draw a line from the back tip of home plate to the outside point of first or third base it would be inside that line....
If the ball hits the batter in this "Bermuda Triangle", is he out?? |
No, it's a foul ball - which is why we all answered "foul" to Q4.
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Get the rake...
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No, the batter would not be out if the ball is batted to the ground, hits there and comes back up at him. If he is completely within the box, those lines protect him during his at bat. In fact, on cruddy fields, the ball could hit IN FRONT OF the plate and spin back at him while he is still within the box and he's safe. That said, unless you have a great grounds crew and a perfect surface, you'll never be able to tell exactly where the ball hit. Good luck! |
I can't find a rule stating the batter's box 'protects' the batter. Is it more a question of foul territory and since most of the box is foul, we've established this as an 'unwritten' rule?
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I have not found anything on this in OBR, PBUC, or BRD. It is covered in FED (7-2-1(f)). Could this be a case for 9.01(c) to be applied? If so I would rule foul ball if a batted ball touched him while in the bermuda triangle, unless it was laying there like a dead duck, or spinning away from him, when he kicked it getting out of the box, ie was it avoidable or unavoidable. It is only logical that he can stand in the box, with one foot in the triangle and foul a ball off his foot. It is not logical to allow a ball that lands in the triangle and dies there to be kicked no more than it would be logical to allow one that lands one inch in front of home plate to be kicked.
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Add this one to your collection, jesmael:
Ball hits <i>behind</i> home plate and goes fair. FAIR. Wasn't there a nineteenth-century novel that began, "Call me jesmael"? Something about a whale? [Edited by greymule on Jul 2nd, 2004 at 01:28 PM] |
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