Reply to "Bunt..foul ball or out?"

POLOGREEN1,000+ posts

It needs to be a bunt attempt...pulling the bat back isn't an attempt any more.

It’s a foul ball. The batter setting up for a bunt attempt is not yet a bunt. His pulling the bat back is no longer a bunt attempt. The pitch hitting the bat, in such a manner, is akin to the pitch hitting the knob on a pitch up-and-in, or hitting the bat while the batter is dropping it while ducking a pitch behind him. Are those regarded as swing attempts? No. However, once the pitch hits the bat (first), the ball becomes subject to a fair/foul judgement like any other batted ball.

3/11/202:32 PM

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