I took your advice...

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by David B

Exactly. You saw the ball hit the batter, you should have a dead ball just as well as the PU. Similiar to a ball that hits the batters foot etc.,

Even if PU doesn't call it, you can and should.

Thanks
David

I can see your point ... but BU is 100 feet away, and PU didn't kill the play from 3 feet away. As BU, unless I was POSITIVE the ball hit the batter, I'd be hard pressed to kill the play immediately. I guarantee I'd be asking my partner what he saw when the play ended, as stated above... but the WORST thing we can do is kill a live ball - so I'd err on the side of fixing this one afterward.