No outs with a runner on first. Our batter squares to bunt. The ball tails way inside to hit the batter. The ump did not give the batter first because he said that the batter did not pull the bat back. All the batter did was try to get out of the way of the pitch; but the ump stood by his call of a strike and no first base. Is that the correct call even when the ball is a foot or more inside.
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