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To: windcliff
Sixty three posts so far to a play they never saw. Only the poster and I apparently saw it. Incredible.

The batter swung, missed, the catcher Brian McCann fielded the ball after a bounce in the dirt behind home plate. Home plate umpire called a strikeout. Third base umpire corrected the home plate ump because the ball was dead on contact with the ground.

There was no foul tip.

64 posted on 04/05/2012 3:45:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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To: Jacquerie

Uh, there is a little problem with your analysis there, Jac.
If there was no foul tip then the batter is out when he swings and misses at strike three. No such thing as “the ball is dead when it hits the ground”...unless it’s a foul ball.


65 posted on 04/05/2012 3:49:45 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: Jacquerie
The batter swung, missed, the catcher Brian McCann fielded the ball after a bounce in the dirt behind home plate. Home plate umpire called a strikeout. Third base umpire corrected the home plate ump because the ball was dead on contact with the ground.

There was no foul tip.

I'm glad somebody saw what I've been talking about!

Would you kindly explaining what "dead on contact with the ground" means? Where in the official rules is this situation dealt with?

Why wasn't Davis directed to run toward first base or else tagged out by the catcher? Why was he given an extra pitch where the exact same thing happened?

79 posted on 04/05/2012 8:12:20 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Jacquerie
The batter swung, missed, the catcher Brian McCann fielded the ball after a bounce in the dirt behind home plate. Home plate umpire called a strikeout. Third base umpire corrected the home plate ump because the ball was dead on contact with the ground.

Wait a minute . . . are you saying the swing occurred after the ball had hit the ground, thus ending the pitch? If so, it would have counted as a ball, wouldn't it?

81 posted on 04/05/2012 8:18:42 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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