A Hit by Pitch First
 

This afternoon I umpired an 18U Fall Baseball DH using NFHS rules. And I had a very unusual day behind the plate in the first game.

There was a player for the home team that struck out swinging in his first time at bat. The unusual thing was that the pitch came up and in on him and hit him while he was swinging at the pitch. Now is the really unusual thing that happened: In the bottom of the seventh inning of the same game, the same player came to the play and struck out swinging while getting hit with the pitch. I told him that I would be writing about him tonight on Officiating.com.

MTD, Sr.

Didn't his coach ask you to send him to 1B?

Nope.

I have a better one. I didn't have the dish but my partner in a high school varsity game called the same batter out twice in the same game on a pitch that hit him. On both occaisions it was strike three. Yours is a good one though.

I'm not sure but are you thinking the batter should have got first base?? If so, your wrong.

Batter who swings at a pitch on third strike and is subsequently hit by the ball is automatically out (unless foul ball) and the ball is then immediate dead.

i read this as a called strike three, not a swinging strike three, which would make the post make sense.

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Third strike called or swinging the batter is out and the ball is dead.

i feel like you are missing the point of the post. the fact that the batter is out is not in question. the guy was simply stating that while the OP was an odd situation, in his game there was an even more odd situation in which a batter was called out strikes twice in the same game on pitches that hit him. maybe he was leaning over the plate, maybe the PU stunk...PU. maybe he should have put a smiley face on his post or something.:) :D

hi garth.

From the post, I wasn't sure if he thought it strange that the batter wasn't awarded first or it was strange that it happened in the first place.

Reading is a skill. IT WAS STRIKE THREE.

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