Question From a Fan Re Hit By Pitch

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Rich Ives

If you undo the HBP you undo the dead ball. So the runner gets 2B on the WP.

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

I don't see the problem, even the announcers got it right. No HBP, R1 advances on the wild pitch, Charlie M gets a runner at second and still finds a way to get ejected. What a marooon.

This is correct. I had almost the exact thing last weekend. With R2, I thought a low pitch grazed the batter, called Time as the ball went to the backstop. It rebounded back to F2, but R2 had already reached 3rd, so there was no possible play. Both the batter and F2 said that the ball didn't hit the batter, so I reversed the HBP and left R2 at 3rd, much to the displeasure of F2.