You sound like a complete idiot. That’s the wrong call. Maybe it’s more of a judgement call than I thought. But I have never seen a runner not called out after being directly hit with a batted ball. Not in baseball, not in slo pitch softball and not in teenage fast pitch.
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Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Comp and MTR are umpires. They both have a long history on this site of demonstrating their deep knowledge of the rules of the game. I think most of the rest of us are coaches and/or parents. As a coach, I'm very interested to continually improve my understanding of the rules.
People who have posted in this thread having nothing better to do has zero correlation to the accuracy of the responses you've received.
The runner was running to second base got hit with a batted ball. She wasn’t close to either the 1st baseman or the second baseman who was breaking to second to cover the steal. Home plate umpire called her out. The base umpire who was behind ss reversed the call. Because he said the first baseman was positioned in front of first, he said it didn’t matter that she wasn’t involved in the play.
No. However, all the examples I have seen have been in front of IFs, so it's not the same situation as the one you have described.
The language of the rule is clear, and has been spelled out numerous times. The umpire on the field applied that rule to the play. Unfortunately, it didn't work out in favor of your DD's team. Get over it, dude...
Exactly nothing. Just because I - or you - haven't seen it means exactly nothing. I haven't seen a lot of things. That doesn't mean they don't exist or other people haven't seen them.
Yes I have. I have seen it numerous times at all levels of play and I have called runners safe myself that were hit by batted balls after it had passed an infielder an no other fielder had a chance to make an out. But go ahead and keep complaining about how wrong the rule is, calling people names after you have been shown the rule countless times. You have insisted the rule is different in baseball which it is not and I have provided you with at least 3 different baseball rule sets that all have the same rule.
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