NFHS, Bunt Rule

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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.