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On the line is considered a legal starting position. In your situation, the batter is doing nothing wrong. As JM said, if he were in an illegal position, you should have him move. If you notice an illegal starting position, allow the pitcher to pitch, and the batter hits the ball, and then you call him out for being out of the box, you have opened a nasty can of worms for yourself.
As for the back of the batters box, generally you will let them get away with it (in reason) unless the other team says something about it, at which point you will enfore it strictly for both teams. |
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NJ, is that the question you wanted to ask? I'm stumped as to why you would want to tell the batter he is on the line? Did you mean do you "tell the batter they are not in the box"?
If your question is correct, the answer is no.
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If a batter is outside box before the pitch, I'll move them in, especially if they're crowding the plate, and blocking my view. I'll enforce the back line if someone is beefing about it. But if a foot is entirely out to the box to start with, or touching the plate for some rule sets, I'd hope we'd all catch that. |
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And Kyle is correct, while having only part of your foot out of the box is an illegal starting position, as long as part of your foot is in the box when you make contact with the ball, you're ok (pro interpretation at least, not positive if it differs in high school). |
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To answer with the OP - no I wouldn't tell them they are on the line. I would tell them if they are out of the box (rather "not in a legal position"). |
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I agree with your comment completely. |
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