check swing

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Originally Posted by yankeesfan

i seen this play happened in a college game and i was wondering what the fed rule is on this. there is a 3-2 count on the batter with 2 outs, men on 2nd and 3rd. the 3-2 pitch is called a ball on a check swing and the ball gets away from the catcher and goes to the backstop. the batter heads to first and all the runners move up. the catcher then asks for an appeal and the first base umpire calls it a swing for a third strike. the umpires got together and called the batter out and no run scored. this is hard for me to believe that it was called correctly, just doesn't seem right. what is the fed ruling on this?

This is missing one critical piece of information. Did the catcher retrieve the ball and throw it to F3 before the batter arrived at 1B? If so batter is out and inning over. If not then batter is safe and runner advances count. The way this is worded makes me think the batter was not thrown out, since the catcher would not be asking for check swing if batter had been thrown out.

Sounds like a bad call to me.