BUT, He hit it fair!!!!

[chris s]

Originally posted by DownTownTonyBrown
Yes, what is the correct answer.

Batter swings and ball hits his hands and the bat, ball roles into fair territory, umpire correctly yells dead ball and assesses a strike, it is the batter's 3rd strike. Is the batter out?

FED 8-1-1d
Batter becomes a runner when a pitched ball hits his person or clothing, provided he does not strike at the ball
EXCEPTION ... if the umpire calls the pitched ball a strike, the hitting of the batter is deregarded except that the ball is dead.

The exception seems to be that he didn't hit the ball. The ball hit him somewhere else as he swung and the ball didn't hit the bat.

Seems that the correct call should be FOUL BALL. Hit him and the bat while still in the box.(7-2-1f)

What if it didn't hit the bat - he swings and the ball hits the hands squarely, rolls into fair territory? Now what? swing and a miss? Foul ball?

FED casebook doesn't offer much help - 8.1.1D

Somebody bust out their Jaksa/Roder and give us their interpretation.

Thanks

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You must determine what happened first, the result is the same, cept for strike 2 before this happens, foul or out in that case. I would err to the side of foul if you have a distinctive "ting", one of those "bffling" sounds and go with the DBStrike......jmho. But if ya got a fair dribbler, gotta kill it, hit the hand first