NFHS, Bunt Rule

[topper]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Hell, even as a kid playing baseball, a player had to attempt to hit the ball for the umpire to call a strike.

Maybe I'm older or younger than you, but as a kid, if we didn't pull our bat back when squaring to bunt, it was a strike.

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

To me, it is an indictment of the umpire's inability or refusal to make the proper call as the rule dictates. And if that is their attitude, lets go back to rounders where after the maximum number of pitches, the striker began running the bases whether they hit the ball or not. WTF, is that not the idea of the game anyway?

Okay, I'm younger than you.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by topper

Maybe I'm older or younger than you, but as a kid, if we didn't pull our bat back when squaring to bunt, it was a strike.

Nowhere I played or umpired. Scanning MLB, I cannot find anything that suggest such a rule in baseball.

I just think it is absurd calling a strike on a pitch that is neither in the strike zone or that the batter has attempted to hit.

I can see, well, actually have seen, a batter square to bunt only to stand there and watch the ball go over the backstop. And now there is a rule that insists that must be called a strike?

Sorry, IMO, that is simply absurd.

[SethPDX]

Originally Posted by topper

Maybe I'm older or younger than you, but as a kid, if we didn't pull our bat back when squaring to bunt, it was a strike.

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Nowhere I played or umpired. Scanning MLB, I cannot find anything that suggest such a rule in baseball.

I know of no baseball code that requires the batter to pull back the bat. The umpire must judge if the batter actually offered at the ball.

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

I just think it is absurd calling a strike on a pitch that is neither in the strike zone or that the batter has attempted to hit.

Me too. I did not have to call this last year,so maybe the teams were fast learners.