Third Strike

[AtlUmpSteve]

Originally Posted by lpmx

No outs, runners on second and third.
Pitch count is 2 balls and 2 strikes. Batter swings and misses for strike 3, the pitched ball hits the ground and bounces into the catchers mitt. The ball is caught and the coach yells for the batter to run to 1st as this is a dropped third strike. I am having trouble finding it in the rule book? Any help? Thank you.

Here's two places you can start (you didn't mention any rule set, so apply your own, but they both exist in every rule set:

1) Definitions; look at catch/no catch. Not a catch if it hits the ground.

2) The batter becomes a batter-runner:
When the catcher fails to catch the third strike before the ball touches the ground and ..........