OBR vs Fed: Stepping on the Plate

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

No reference to home plate, but OBR guys who aren't aware, should be aware of OBR rule 6.06(a) A batter is out for illegal action when --
(a) He hits a ball with one or both feet on the ground entirely outside the batter’s box.
My question is if the entire foot is on home plate, wouldn't the entire foot be out of the batter's box??

Well ... yes.

But the original question was: "Batter steps on plate but his foot is not completely out of the batter's box. In OBR, this is nothing, correct? What about FED?"

In OBR, that is nothing. In FED (if you see it), it's an out. The initial sitch did not have the entire foot on home plate.

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by mcrowder

Well ... yes.

But the original question was: "Batter steps on plate but his foot is not completely out of the batter's box. In OBR, this is nothing, correct? What about FED?"

In OBR, that is nothing. In FED (if you see it), it's an out. The initial sitch did not have the entire foot on home plate.

Good points mcrowder...thx for clarifying

[johnnyg08]

Well, I'll never claim to work as many games as some of you on here work...I work between 40 - 70 games per season...varying in level from High School, Junior College, American Legion and Men's Amateur baseball. After I re-read my post...I could see where what I typed made sense to me...but might not make sense to others who read it...I could point it out to you on the field...but I will never, ever be asked to put together a casebook! :-) (not that you'd want me to author that in the 1st place)...people will always read things differently than the intent...I think we'd probably handle it the same way on the field...maybe not...but maybe! LOL