The "batters box"

[noumpere]

 

Source?

 

 

Google image search.  If you right click the pic and select properties you will get the url.  I didn't really check out the rest of it but his part that I cut and pasted above is correct.

[HeadHunterLA]

 

 

Source?

 

 

Google image search.  If you right click the pic and select properties you will get the url.  I didn't really check out the rest of it but his part that I cut and pasted above is correct.

 

Thanks!

[noumpere]

Could the confusion stems from the lines being different in baseball compared to football or basketball?

 

In many other sports, the inside edge of the line marks the edge of the playing surface, and to step on any part of the line puts a player OOB.

 

In baseball, the outside edge of the line marks the edge of the defined area, and stepping on the line puts a player "inbounds" (in the running lane, in fair territory, in the batters box, etc.).

 

Hope that helps! It's a lot of posts for a pretty straightforward rule...

That's not always true though because the lines are in in volleyball.

 

I think its because while all in is always legal and all out is always illegal part in and part out is sometime legal and sometimes not legal.

 

And, look at maybe a different ruling and in different codes with F3 having a foot on the line when holding the runner with part of the foot in foul.

[HeadHunterLA]

Someone please nuke this thread, pronto

[Rich Ives]

 

This I think is what we are talking about, and it is illegal to take this stance (by rule) -- the only "penalty" though is to move the batter into the box.  If you didn't and the batter hit the ball without moving the feet (ignoring the baseball impracicalness of that) the play would stand.

 

 

 

NOT Legal

 

The batter is not legally in position.

His toes are outside the lines.

As the pitcher delivers the pitch, the batter's feet must be WITHIN the lines. (Rule 6.03)

Legal

Both batters are in a legal position to await a pitch.

They are within the box.

Source?

 

 

 

Rule 6.03 - as has been pointed out many times.

[blue23ll]

This thread is becoming a wobw