Question for the baseball guys

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Rich Fronheiser

This is stunning it's so wrong. In every possible way.

A pitcher can return to the mound once per inning if he stays in the game by playing another position. If in the AL, this kills the DH, BTW.

A manager cannot make two trips to the same batter in MLB. If he does after being warned, the manager is ejected and the pitcher must finish the at bat and then HE'S ejected.

You can pinch hit as often as you like. It's not unusual for a pinch hitter to be announced, followed by a pitching change, followed by a pinch hitter for the guy who hasn't even come up to the plate. But that's where it stops, as a pitcher must pitch until he completes an at bat or the side is retired.

Okay, I knew it was going to be confusing after I wrote it. What I meant is, once the at-bat starts, that's batter in the batters box and pitcher set on the rubber to deliver pinch, and the umpire says play ball. That batter can now, not be changed. Before the pitcher gets on the rubber and the umpire says play ball, he/she can be pulled back for another pinch hitter (PH). So it is possible to be in the batters box and before the umpire says play ball, be replaced by another pinch hitter. However, once the umpire says play ball, he/she can no longer be replaced at bat. Also, this sh!t gets deep, once the pinch batter is replaced before ever batting, in other words PH for a PH. The original PH is now out the game, can not return, can not return to play defense. He/she was replaced.

Different story for the pitcher. The pitcher can be 2-0 into the count and be replaced. But the batter can't be replaced if the count is 2-0. That's what I tried to say but in far less words and I did not do it justice. So in fact, the question was in reverse. The pitcher can be replaced at any time thru-out the count, the batter can not, unless of course for injury.

I once had a female who was still in her breast feeding months, breast started flowing milk at the cry of a baby in the crowd that was not hers. By rule, I let her be replaced at the count we where at. It hard to say all of this, and all that applies in a few short words.