Strange batting technique, legal?

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by Linknblue

Saw this once myself. Batter's team had a pretty good lead. Batter's attempt failed but I immediately went to her coach and told him he better stop her from doing it again. I thought she was "mocking" the game and the other team and I was going to have to remove her from the game if it happened again.

Wow. No disrespect intended, but you have a pretty low tolerance level on what you feel is "mocking".

Andy posted that this was a legitimate technique that was designed to catch the defense off-guard. The reason we don't see it is because of the rare likelihood of success.

To me, it's no different than a batter waving the bat up and down before the pitch comes in. While I might find that annoying, I certainly am not going to tell a batter's coach that she needs to stop doing that.