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I posted this elsewhere a month or so ago ... it belongs here:

 

My son suddenly, out of nowhere, starts letting the bat fly behind him after hitting the ball in a game last week. He's warned by the umpire ... then does it AGAIN on a triple. Ump calls him out. Coach had no argument, and I certainly wasn't bothered ... the call seemed right. Then after the game the ump was in the parking lot, and I told him thanks for calling my kid out ... he needs to nip the sudden bad habit in the bud ... and the ump tells me he actually made a mistake. He shouldn't have called him out because that's not the rule. He realized it after he made the call, but we were way up, so decided to stay with it. I still think it's a teaching moment for a freshman, but interesting to hear the ump say there's no rule against inadvertent bat throwing -- even when it bounced back and hit the ump in the shin guard ... which this did. I'd have thought there WAS such a rule.

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