A moving ball hasn't settled and it's not past 1B/3B, so how is it a fair batted ball without touching anything?Seems like a chicken-egg situation if the ball is moving in fair territory - doesn't contacting the player make it a fair batted ball?
It doesn't have to contact anything to be a fair batted ball. As Comp noted earlier, this rule is meant to protect the batter from direct or immediate contact with a ball off the bat. If that isn't the case and the ball is over/in fair territory and contacts a BR moving to advance to 1B, that is INT whether in the BB or not