What about batter?

buddyb03 · #1 (**permalink**) Tue May 29, 2001, 09:11am

First post, bear with me please. Yesterday doing an 11 y.o. Pony Tournament--2 out, R2 hit by batted ball in the hole before anyone touched it, clearly out. Inning over.
Then I realised, what if there had been one out? What happens to the batter? Does he get first without liability and R1 to second? Thanks-I learn a lot here.

Hayes Davis · #2 (**permalink**) Tue May 29, 2001, 09:28am

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Originally posted by buddyb03
First post, bear with me please. Yesterday doing an 11 y.o. Pony Tournament--2 out, R2 hit by batted ball in the hole before anyone touched it, clearly out. Inning over.
Then I realised, what if there had been one out? What happens to the batter? Does he get first without liability and R1 to second? Thanks-I learn a lot here.

You got it right. Ball is immediately dead, award batter 1B and any runners forced to advance will also advance.

Gre144 · #3 (**permalink**) Tue May 29, 2001, 02:20pm

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Originally posted by Hayes Davis

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Originally posted by buddyb03
First post, bear with me please. Yesterday doing an 11 y.o. Pony Tournament--2 out, R2 hit by batted ball in the hole before anyone touched it, clearly out. Inning over.
Then I realised, what if there had been one out? What happens to the batter? Does he get first without liability and R1 to second? Thanks-I learn a lot here.

You got it right. Ball is immediately dead, award batter 1B and any runners forced to advance will also advance.

I think you are right here. Where it may get confusing is if you have batter interference with R3 attempting to score at home. With less than 2 outs, R3 is called out and the batter remains at bat. With 2 outs the batter is out and the person who follows him will be the next batter in the next inning.

#4 (**permalink**) Tue May 29, 2001, 04:05pm

You're right but isn't it nice to realize you have to find an answer before it blows up on you.