Batting out of Turn

[rbmartin]

Originally Posted by wasper16

Ezra's strikeout stands (out 1)...agreed
But the post goes on to say that Jared is out (taken off of 1st) and Dawson is out now we go to the top of the order. We can't turn a double play on the batting out of order call. (And to the kids defense for the person that called them stupid - we had two line ups prior to the game that we were considering, one batting Ezra 6th and Andrew 8th and then the line-up we used. A kid on the bench opened the coaches notebook and read out the wrong line-up versus the one hanging up.)

So if I'm understanding this it goes...Ezra (8th) batted and effectively skipped the 6th and 7th place batter. So Jared is out and Dawson is up?

Lets take this one step at a time:
1) Ezra bats (result of at-bat is not relevant).
2) The moment the next pitch is thrown to anyone (regardless of where he appears in the lineup), Ezra's appearance is made legitimate.
3) Since Ezra's appearance is now legitimate, the proper batter should now be whoever follows Ezra (Dawson in this case) in the lineup.
4) Since Dawson should bat but someone else did (Jared in this case), this constitutes batting out of turn.
5) When anyone is called out for BOOT, it's the guy who should have batted, not the guy who did bat.
6) So, Dawson is out, and whoever follows Dawson on the lineup card (your leadoff batter) is now up.

Make sense?