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Originally Posted by Rich Ives
Which happened first, ball 4 or the WP.
Answer: Ball 4 because it was past the plate, thus ball 4 before it went by the catcher to become a WP.
Therfore in ANY rules the batter was now a runner on no longer at bat.
Synopsis: Batter becomes a runner on ball 4.
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You can take this even further by looking at the various definitions of wild pitch - all of which will tell you that a pitch is not a wild pitch unless and until someone advances a base on it. So not only is this runner's advance part of action that occurred after batter became batter-runner... but the wild pitch wasn't even a wild pitch until the runner advanced.
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Wed Apr 13, 2011, 10:06am
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