Sports myths

bydesign77 · Aug 4, 2008

MU_was_not_so_hard said:

SixToe said:

Apologies. Minor threadjack.

even if a batter squares to bunt and leaves the bat out there, it can still be a ball. The batter has to make an attempt at the ball to count as a swing.
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We had that discussion with three different umpires this year in my son's youth league games. Two called strikes with no movement of the bat, one did not. I agreed with the former.

Back to the myths.
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Coming from someone who umpired high school and beyond, that is correct. A lot of upper level umpires don't know that, simply because it doesn't come up very often. Usually, the batter goes after the ball.

Another one that confuses umpires (including me, until Kevin Seitzer corrected me, somewhat embarrassingly) is when a batter swings at a pitch but the ball hits him. If the ball hits the batter before the player's bat crosses the plate, it's a HBP.
If it hits him after, it's a strike.
Both go dead ball.
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A hit batter is always a dead ball.

There are a lot of umpiring myths out there.

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