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How would you handle each of these HBP situations?  

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  1. 1. Slow lazy curveball, the whole park knows is going to hit the batter. The pitch does indeed hit the batter in the back. Batter does nothing and is hit by the pitch in the back.

    • Keep him in the box
      30
    • Award the base
      30

  2. 2. Slow lazy curveball, the whole park knows is going to hit the batter. The pitch does hit the batter in the back. Batter "turns in" "showing effort" and is hit by the pitch in the back.

    • Keep him in the box
      3
    • Award the base
      57

  3. 3. Tricky breaking ball "locks batter up", the batter does nothing.

    • Keep him in the box
      4
    • Award the base
      56

  4. 4. Tricky breaking ball, batter seems to make an attempt to avoid, but ends up moving into the pitch. (Ex. Breaking ball starts behind batter, batter moves, and is hit - had he not moved he wouldn't have been hit)

    • Keep him in the box
      4
    • Award the base
      56

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grayhawk

grayhawk

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Let me reiterate that in scenario one, the CURVE hit the batter in the BACK.  Maybe he didn't move thinking it would miss well behind him and it just clips him.  Did he PERMIT the ball to hit him if he thought it was going to miss by a foot behind him, but instead it breaks hard at the end and just gets him?  You're going to keep him in the box for a pitcher missing my THAT much?  Is that what the rule is saying to you?

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jkumpire
jkumpire

If the ball hits him in the back in the batters box, he got hit where he's allowed to be. "The player just cannot disappear" as Evans says. Put him on the base.  As I see the play if it hits him at th

grayhawk
grayhawk

Agree on all fronts.  If the pitch hits the batter in the back, he's going to first base.  I voted to award in each case above.

KLAH316
KLAH316

Since I am not, nor ever will be an MLB Umpire, I am stuck working AMATURE baseball forever.  That being said, I will practically always award 1st base in youth ball unless it's SO OBVIOUS that the b

mstaylor

mstaylor

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The OP says everybody in the park knew out was going to hit him, they means he does there and watched it all the way in. Look, we are very close in the real world, but there are times he watches it hit him and he should not be rewarded for that. I am talking maybe three calls a season.

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