BOO - Force out

[Ump Rube]

Originally Posted by GA Umpire

I can understand that. But, the idea of an illegally batted ball is to not keep the results b/c the ball was batted illegally.

I am not arguing. I am just wondering why illegally batted ball results get kept and others don't like batting a ball with one foot out of the box.

I see where you are coming from, but I feel that these 2 situations (BOO & 1-foot out) have more differences than similarities. My feeling is that the 1-foot out is giving the offense a distinct physical advantage (batter is "false starting" to 1B) rather than BOO that seems more like a "mental" (for lack of a better term at this point) advantage. Just like you, not arguing just trying to wrap my mind around it better.