This is one of those umpires who probably shows up at the last minute and skips equipment check... Pretty sure if he/she had checked the bats ahead of time, the call would have been different.
Watching my DD's recent HS game, one of her teammates was hit on the hand, and the ump ruled that it was not HBP because the "hands are part of the bat". I know that this is not correct for other rule sets, but wasn't sure if it was different for HS.
If it wasn't a HBP and the hands are part of the bat, did the umpire call it a fair or foul ball?
Foul......
Can't say one way or the other without seeing it but saw a HBP waved off in a college game this weekend because the batters arm was outside the batters box.
Was it called a ball or a strike?
In college, the batter has to try to avoid getting hit by a pitch that is not entirely in the batter's box, and they can't try to get hit by the pitch either. The umpire has some room for judgement in both instances and is told to err on the side of the batter, so for that to be waved off would tell me that the umpire believed one of those two things to be true, or the pitch itself was in the strike zone when it contacted the batter.