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Old Wed Jun 30, 2004, 09:21am
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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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Old Wed Jun 30, 2004, 09:24am
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Old Wed Jun 30, 2004, 09:29am
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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...


Fair.

2. Ball hits and stays on home plate...


Fair.

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....


Sounds fair, but probably HTBT with the way some batter boxes are layed out in my area.

4. Hits batter while in batters box and goes fair...


Foul.



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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...




Please read FED rule 2-5-1 and if there's something you don't understand then come back.

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Old Wed Jun 30, 2004, 11:02am
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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.

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Old Wed Jun 30, 2004, 11:47am
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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...
Just in case you may have mis-read the other answers;

We have:
Fair
Fair
Fair
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Old Wed Jun 30, 2004, 01:24pm
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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??
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Old Wed Jun 30, 2004, 01:26pm
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No, it's a foul ball - which is why we all answered "foul" to Q4.
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Old Wed Jun 30, 2004, 03:31pm
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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??
Sorry Tornado, I thought it was clear. The entire plate and those "Bermuda Triangles" you refer to are in fair territory. Much like their namesake, they are kind of no man's land.

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.

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Old Thu Jul 01, 2004, 11:02am
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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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Old Thu Jul 01, 2004, 11:22am
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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?

Yes (under OBR).

It is a FED rule.

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Old Thu Jul 01, 2004, 06:47pm
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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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Old Fri Jul 02, 2004, 12:26pm
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Add this one to your collection, jesmael:

Ball hits behind home plate and goes fair.

FAIR.

Wasn't there a nineteenth-century novel that began, "Call me jesmael"? Something about a whale?

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