Scenario occurred over the weekend and I was curious if the call was correct.
Start of new inning, batter #8 in opposing team’s lineup is due for an at-bat. Batter #9 heads to box and opposing team is unaware at this juncture that batter is out of order. Batter completes at-bat with 4-3 groundout. After at-bat, our team calls time and informs official of situation. Opposing team agrees with error. Umps indicates that batter #9 (whom just batted out of turn and grounded out) hits again since she follows batter #8, whom did not bat.
I realize rules vary by association (this was USSSA), but my assumption was batter #8 would have been called out for batting out of order, batter #9 grounded out and the next batter would be the batter that followed batter #9 (in this instance batter #1).
Thanks in advance for guidance on the ruling.
Start of new inning, batter #8 in opposing team’s lineup is due for an at-bat. Batter #9 heads to box and opposing team is unaware at this juncture that batter is out of order. Batter completes at-bat with 4-3 groundout. After at-bat, our team calls time and informs official of situation. Opposing team agrees with error. Umps indicates that batter #9 (whom just batted out of turn and grounded out) hits again since she follows batter #8, whom did not bat.
I realize rules vary by association (this was USSSA), but my assumption was batter #8 would have been called out for batting out of order, batter #9 grounded out and the next batter would be the batter that followed batter #9 (in this instance batter #1).
Thanks in advance for guidance on the ruling.