Runner hit by deflected batted ball

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Mon Jul 14, 2014, 02:16pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Play on (assuming the contact was not intentional).

7.08(f) A runner is out when ... He is touched by a fair ball in fair territory before the ball has touched or passed an
infielder

(emphasis added)

I take it, then, the pitcher counts as an infielder, in which case the batter, thrown out at first, should have been the third out of the inning, correct?

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