Battting

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Legacy Zebra

I’ve never worked Fed for rules (and at this point probably never will), but just for clarification. In NFHS, you can’t bat a loose ball in any direction after it hits the ground even in the field of play?

...unless you're on the kicking team and you're batting a scrimmage kick backward from beyond your line.

Another situation where this is likely to come up would be by a player of R at a free kick that K is threatening to recover. It would be to R's advantage if a "muffed" ball went out of bounds, know what I mean, say no more? Even if the kick hasn't been grounded, it's illegal to bat.