OK, so this is one of those where I know the rule. I've always known the rule. I can't find anything to suggest I don't know the rule.
And yet both umpires agreed today and now I'm doubting myself and wondering if this is a baseball/softball difference.
A pitch hits the ground before hitting the batter in the foot. That's a hit by pitch in every rule set, right? Nothing goofy happened. The umpires literally said "If it bounces first it's not a hit by pitch."
I guess it's just a ball. I think they called dead ball, but they let the base runners advance.
The base umpire apparently had the plate in a JV game of ours a couple weeks ago (I was not there) and he made the same ruling then. There was also a hit by pitch where the batter swung and he gave her the HBP because "it depends where it hits her."
And yet both umpires agreed today and now I'm doubting myself and wondering if this is a baseball/softball difference.
A pitch hits the ground before hitting the batter in the foot. That's a hit by pitch in every rule set, right? Nothing goofy happened. The umpires literally said "If it bounces first it's not a hit by pitch."
I guess it's just a ball. I think they called dead ball, but they let the base runners advance.
The base umpire apparently had the plate in a JV game of ours a couple weeks ago (I was not there) and he made the same ruling then. There was also a hit by pitch where the batter swung and he gave her the HBP because "it depends where it hits her."