Got a good one for you . . .

[eddieq]

Ok, I know this is nearly two months later - but this happened at one of my games last week. Batter had an 0-2 count, swung at an inside pitch that got the bat, then ran up her hands tearing off her thumbnail. 12U community. Batting the lineup. No subs.

Between the coaches, they decided they would just skip her and move on. I offered some insight to the rules, but let them decide and they worked it out.

 

[sgurg]

Ok, I know this is nearly two months later - but this happened at one of my games last week. Batter had an 0-2 count, swung at an inside pitch that got the bat, then ran up her hands tearing off her thumbnail. 12U community. Batting the lineup. No subs.

Between the coaches, they decided they would just skip her and move on. I offered some insight to the rules, but let them decide and they worked it out.

Seems the ball would have to hit the hand/finger before touching the bat. In that case, wouldn't it be a dead ball swinging strike?

 

[eddieq]

No, it clearly hit the bat and ran up her hand. There was no question on that. We can appeal to the replay team in New York, I guess. Besides, aren't the hands part of the bat? (tongue in cheek here - don't blow this up)

 

[The Man In Blue]

IF hands are a part of the bat . . . then the bat is also the hands . . . and every batted ball is a dead ball strike.

 

[eddieq]

IF hands are a part of the bat . . . then the bat is also the hands . . . and every batted ball is a dead ball strike.

And it makes sense that the hands are the bat, I can catch the ball and throw it for a base hit.

 

[MoJo]

Thanks to my cynicism about coaches, especially rec league ones (a thankless job, I know), you almost have to assume the count. Otherwise, you'd have every girl getting mysterious illnesses and injuries ever time they got two strikes on them.

Edited to add: "Time, Blue! I think my batter has scurvy!"

Acute Scurvy?
15 minute scurvy?
Pediatric scurvy?
Retrograde scurvy?

 

[ninthgirl]

It's funny for me to read this, because my husband the commissioner had to have a long discussion with his coaches this season about this exact scenario. I really thought when I read the OP that someone was talking about what happened in our league, except it was at 10U and the OP's handle doesn't sound like the name of either coach.

In our case, coach on defense wanted the batter out. Coach on offense wanted to sub a (better, fwiw) batter in at the same count - not compression but a full-up sub. Happened to be our two worst behaved coaches at that level, so of course they couldn't keep it quite entirely civil. And just like The Man in Blue said, both coaches have earned distrust on their motives also. I think they ended up with a sub and a lot of complaints to my husband, who soothed feelings.

 

[The Man In Blue]

@ninthgirl , it is a thankless job your husband does and an even more thankless one that you do in putting up with it. So, THANK YOU!

Been there, done that. Don’t regret moving on.

 

[eddieq]

@ninthgirl Please have your husband take some time to codify what the league wants done there. That way it’s consistent and nobody has to make it up on the fly.

 

[MidwestFastpitchDad]

Literally happened today at my kids game. Travel b/c. 11 on our roster tonight, injured player stayed out, next batter assumed the 0-1 count.


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