bat throwing rule

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batter bunts (nicely) about 10 feet in front of plate, but tosses her bat forward as she leaves the box. Bat lands about the same place as the bunt. whats the call?

 

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batter bunts (nicely) about 10 feet in front of plate, but tosses her bat forward as she leaves the box. ?Bat lands about the same place as the bunt. ?whats the call?

Ball rolls into stationary bat on the ground.....Nothing.

Bat hits ball on the ground...Batter is out, return runners to last base touched. 7-4-13

Bat intereferes with a fielder...Batter is out, return runners. 7-4-14

Didn't mean to put intentionally in.

 

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Matt pretty much covered it. There are a couple of exceptions to be aware of.

- While using "bat hits ball versus ball hits bat" to determine interference will work 99.99% of the time, there is one rare exception.

If, in the umpire's judgment, the batter willfully placed the bat into the path of the ball, for the purpose of intentionally deflecting the ball, then in that one case even if the bat is lying still on the ground and the ball hits it, interference can be ruled.

- On Matt's last point, I don't think that "intentionally" is part of the equation. You have either interfered, or you have not, and can be guilty of interference even without intending to.

Here is the Case Play for rule 7-4-14:

SITUATION: In hitting a slow roller to F5, the (a) whole bat slips out of
B1's hands and interferes with F5 or (b) her bat breaks and hits the ball or F5 as
F5 attempts to field the ball. RULING: In (a), the ball is dead immediately. B1 is
declared out for interference, because B1 is responsible for controlling her bat
and not allowing it to interfere with a defensive player attempting a play. In (b),
there is no penalty and the ball remains live.

In part (a), the bat has clearly interfered with a fielder by accident (no intent) and it is still interference.

Part (b) covers a different point that is kind of on a tangent to this rule. It is telling us that a broken bat can never be ruled interference. The whole bat must interfere with a fielder to be a violation.

 

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I saw a situation in a game recently where the catcher kicked the bat (in attempting to make a play), and it struck the ball. The umpire ruling was dead ball, gave H1 1st base and advanced all runners 1 base on the dead ball.

 

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I saw a situation in a game recently where the catcher kicked the bat (in attempting to make a play), and it struck the ball. The umpire ruling was dead ball, gave H1 1st base and advanced all runners 1 base on the dead ball.

I'm sure that Bret will give the definitive answer, but I would think that since the defender kicked the bat it would still be a live ball (unless the ball went out of play).

 

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BMC...(Bad Move Catcher). Followed by BMU...(Bad Move Umpire).

There is absolutely no rule support for calling the ball dead on this play- or to award bases.

Live ball...play on!

 

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I saw a situation in a game recently where the catcher kicked the bat (in attempting to make a play), and it struck the ball. ?The umpire ruling was dead ball, ?gave H1 1st base and advanced all runners 1 base on the dead ball. ?

Another case of the dreaded OOO. ;D ;D

My guess is the umpire was somehow attempting to apply some sort of blocked ball rule 8-4-3f. Even with that being a stretch, the awards were wrong.

 

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He was young and struggling all night. The only time I got on him was when he called a ball fair on a fly ball, in foul territory, that LF dropped (she was also completely in foul territory 6-10 feet). That cost me a run, but ended up scoring 2 off the "bat" incident. I certainly kept my mouth shut on that one.