Hit by pitch along with Illegal pitch

[Steve M]

I updated the thread over on eteamz about this and here's a copy of that.

I spoke with a friend who is just off of Fed's rules committee about the situation talked about earlier. As I said in that post, ASA and NCAA are specific about this - the batter is awarded 1B AND all runners are advanced one base. Fed does not specifically address this. But the situation does not appear in the rules differences book that is "accepted" by all three groups. My friend said to enforce the same penalty in Fed ball that is enforced in ASA & NCAA. Fed should, and probably will, make a clarification to this soon and a rule book change for next year.


Steve M