Batting: altered or illegal bat

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Batting altered or illegal bat

• Altered bat
• Something is changed
• Replacing the handle
• Inserting material
• More than two tape layers
• Using a flair or cone
• Effect for using or entering the batters box
• batter out and ejected
• Bat removed
• Illegal bat
• Does not meet the requirements
• Effect for using or entering the batters box
• Batter is out
• Bat is removed

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Illegaly batted ball

• Only when batter hits ball with
• entire foot completely out box on the ground
• Even when he steps with entire foot completely
  out box and returns to contact the ball while
  inside the box.
• Any part of his foot touching home plate
• altered bat
• illegal bat

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Foul tip

• Batted ball
• Directly from bat to cathers hand
• Not higher than batters head
• If legally caught by cather
• is always a strike
• The ball is in play

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On-deck batter

• Next batter
• In on-deck circle
• Not more than two bats
• May only leave on-deck circle
• Becomes batter
• To direct runners advancing from 3 base
• Must leave to avoid interference

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Strike called by the umpire

• Ball enters or touches strike zone
• Struck and missed by batter
• Even when ball touches batter
• Foul tip
• Foul ball, less than 2 strikes
• Batter hits in the box by his own batted ball
• foul ball
• Pitched ball hits batter in the strike zone
• When batter fails to enter batters box (10 sec)
• Pitcher does not need to thrown
• Ball is dead and runners return

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Ball is called by the umpire

• Legally pitched ball
• Not entering, nor touching strike zone
• Touches ground before home plate, not swung at
• Touches home plate, not swung at
• Ball is in play, runners may advance
• Illegally pitched ball
• Batter does not hit
• Manager does not take result of play
• Ball is dead, runners advances one base
• Catcher does not return ball directly to pitcher
• Pitcher does not pitch within 20 sec
• Excessive warm-up pitches

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Batter is out

• Third strike
• Enters box with altered or illegal bat
• Hits with foot completely outside box
• Hits with foot touching home plate
• Leaves box for running start and hits
• Foul bunt on third strike
• Hits fair ball second time in fair territory
• Not standing in his box
• Steps to other box in front of catcher (dead
  ball)
• While pitching
• Interferes with play at home plate ( dead ball)
• Third strike not caught by catcher, but 1 base
  occupied
• Less than two out

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Batter-runner

• Base path
• Direct line between base and runner at time
  player is attempting to tag
• So called one meter line (0.91 m)

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Batters becomes runner

• Hits a fair ball
• Catcher fails to catch third strike
• 2 outs
• Less than 2 outs, first base unoccupied
• 4 balls
• Catchers obstruction
• Delayed dead ball, till batter reaches 1st base
  and all other runners advance one base
• Fair ball strikes runner or umpires
• Hit by pitch
• Dead ball, batter gets 1st base
• Fair batted ball
• Goes over the fence
• Goes off fielders glove or body over the fence
• Contacts foul pole
• Any person (not a team member) interferes
• Fair batted ground ball
• Fielder about to field or catch a thrown ball
• Fielder about to throw
• Ball thrown by fielder

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Fair ball strikes runner or umpires

• Effect
• After touching fielder (including pitcher)
• Ball is in play
• After passing a fielder (pitcher NOT included)
  and no other fielder has change to make an out
• Ball is in play
• Before passing a fielder (pitcher NOT included)
• Ball is dead
• Runner hit is OUT (of base)
• If no other fielder had opportunity to make an
  out
• Runner is NOT out
• Ball remains dead
• All runners must return
• Batter awarded 1st base

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Batter-runner is out

• Tagged before reaching 1st base
• Thrown out before reaching 1st base
• Fielder catches fly ball
• Fails to go to 1 base and enters dugout
• Infield fly
• Touches fair portion of 1st base and play is made
• Interferes with play at home plate
• If obvious prevent an out, the runner is also OUT
• Steps back to avoid or delay a tag
• Collides with fielder at 1st base (making a play)
• Member of offensive team interferes on foul fly
• If a runner interferes, than the runner is OUT
• Batter-runner returns to bat
• Ball is dead, all other runners return

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Batter-runner is out

• Intentional drop (less than two out runner on
  1st base)
• Dead ball and runners return
• Immediate preceding runner (not yet out)
  interferes
• That runner is also out
• Dead ball and runners return
• Any person (no team member) interferes
• Dead ball
• Runners awarded bases they would have reached

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Batter-runner is out

• When he runs outside 1 m line
• To avoid a tag
• And interferes with
• Fielder to catch thrown or batted ball
• Fielder attempting a throw
• If obvious attempt to prevent a double play
• Runner closest to home plate is also OUT
• Batter-runner is not out
• Fielder makes play with illegal glove
• Option play

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Runners

• Must touch bases in legal order
• Even when returning
• To a missed base
• To a base left before a caught fly
• Even when bases are awarded
• base left to soon must be touched before going to
  awarded base
• Entitled to hold a base
• until next base is legally touched
• Or forced to proceed
• Two runner cant occupy the same base
• Cant return to missed base after the following
  runner has scored

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Runner can advance and with liability to be put
out

• Ball leaves hand of pitcher
• Thrown or fair batted ball (not blocked)
• Thrown ball hits umpire
• First touch on legally caught fly
• Fair batted ball strikes umpire or runner
• After passing a lielder other than pitcher
• After being touched by fielder (including pitcher)

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Runner can advance without liability to be put out

• If forced by BB on batter
• Fielder obstructs the runner
• Not in possession of ball
• Making a fake tag
• Effectof obstruction
• Delayed dead ball
• Runner(s) will always be awarded base he should
  reach
• If runner out before reaching the awarded base
• dead ball called
• If runner out after passing the awarded base
• Runner is out
• Ball remains alive

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Runner can advance without liability to be put out

• Wild pitch or passed ball goes under, over,
  through or lodges in backstop
• Forced by batter awarded 1st base
• Illegal pitch
• Fielder intentionally contact a fair batted,
  thrown or pitched ball with cap, helmet,
• Effect
• all runner three bases on fair batted ball
  (pitch)
• all runners two bases on thrown ball (throw)
• all runner one base on a pitched ball (pitch)
• home run is given if .

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Runner can advance without liability to be put out

• Overthrown or blocked ball
• all runners awarded two bases from thrown
• exception
• fielder loses posession
• one base from moment of block
• blocked in offensive equipment
• dead ball runner return
• runner try to play on is out
• Fair batted fly ball
• over fence in fair territory
• from fielders glove or body over fence
• contacts foul pole above fence level
• home run is awarded

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Runner can advance without liability to be put out

• Fair ball bounces over, under or through the
  fence
• Dead ball
• Runners are awarded two bases
• Unintentionally carried by fielder into dead ball
  territory
• Dead ball
• Runners are awarded one base
• Intentionally carried by fielder into dead ball
  territory
• Dead ball
• Runners are awarded two bases
• Any person ( no team member) interferes
• Dead ball
• Runners may advance to the base the umpire awarded

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Runner is out

• Runs out of one meter line to avoid a tag
• Legally touched when not in contact with base
• On forced play
• Fail to return to base and legal appeal is made
• Physical assist (not other runner)
• Passes proceeding runner
• Leaves his base to early
• Running or sliding to base and missing the base
• Stuck with fair batted ball (off base)
• Intentionally kicks a ball missed by a fielder

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Runner is out

• Interferes with an attempt of fieldingo or
  Intentionally interferes with a thrown ball
• If obvious attempt to prevent double play
• Immediate succeeding runner also out
• After beeing declared out, interferes with
  defensive player
• Runner closest to home plate also out
• One or more members of offensive team collect
  around a base, confusing the fielders.
• Coach at third base runs to home plate, confusing
  the fielders

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Runner is out

• A coach intentionally interferes while in his box
• Runner closest to home plate is called out
• Runner stays on his feet and crashes into
  defensive player with ball in his possesion
• Runner shall be ejected
• Dead ball
• Other runners return
• Runs bases in reverse order
• Leaves to soon on pitch
• Does not immediately return or continious to a
  base when pitcher hold the ball in his hand in
  the circle
• Abandons a base and goes into dugout
• Running start on a base from behind that base
• Batter-runner interferes at home plate to prevent
  an obvious out at home plate
• Dead ball
• Batter-runner also out

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Runner is not out

• Runs outside one meter line
• to avoid interfering
• Does not run in a direct line
• but there is no attempt to tag
• No fielder in that zone has the ball in his hand
  or glove
• More than one fielder try to field a batted ball,
  runner contact the fielder who was not entitled
  to field (ump)
• Hit with a batted ball that has passed a fielder
• Hit with a fair untouched batted ball over foul
  territory and no fielder had a chance to make an
  out
• Hit with a fair batted and touched ball
• Touched while of base
• Ball not securely held
• With hand or glove, but ball in other hand

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Runner is not out

• Defensive team does not appeal in time
• Before next pitch
• After fielders have left fair territiry
• After umpires have left field
• Batter-runner touches 1st base, passes and
  directly returns
• Not give sufficient time to return to a base
• Started to advance before the pitcher receives
  the ball
• Leaves the base when fielder touches a fly ball
• Hit by a batted ball while in contact with a base
• Slides into a base and dislodges it
• Is taged out while fielder is using an illegal
  glove

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