ASA 2011 Rule Book Question

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Originally Posted by pdm54

Thanks for the input everyone. RS #44 pretty well sums it up, however is the pitcher excluded or not?

The other scenarios preceding #6 all exclude the pitcher unless touched by the ball so in my limited experience I would think she would be excluded. I'm still open for differing opinions though.

In my opinion, the pitcher is excluded in determining whether it has already passed an infielder. The likelihood that the pitcher would ever be the nearest fielder is extremely small, but to be consistent with the other rules regarding a runner hit by an untouched batted ball, the pitcher should not be taken into consideration when judging whether a batted ball has passed an infielder.

I could be wrong. Any other thoughts?