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Batting out of turn + substitutions
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Summer ball, OBR with minor differences irrelevant to this play, I was a spectator who happened to be keeping score.
Home team's batting order is A1 through A9 in order. A8 is the DH since this may become relevant.
In the bottom of the 5th, A5 bats in A4's place. He hits into a double play to end the inning, so the visiting team says nothing.
To lead off the bottom of the 6th, A10 comes in as a pinch hitter and strikes out. The next batter after him is A6. After one pitch, the visiting manager comes out to argue something with the umpires (I'm not sure exactly what, but he brought out his lineup card so I can make an assumption.) A6 remains in the game and strikes out, followed by pinch hitter A11 who grounds out.
A10, A11, and A12 come out on defense in the top of the 7th, replacing A4, A6, and A7. The visiting manager comes out for another chat, but nothing comes of it. The rest of the game went smoothly (A8 led off the bottom of the 7th, but the visiting team said nothing about it. The home team won in 8½ innings with their last batter being A3, so we didn't get any more arguments.)
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noumpere
Since a pitch was thrown (presumably) in the top of the next inning, A5's at bat was legitimized. That means A6 should lead off the bottom of the inning.
bwburke94
It seems obvious that the home team's intent was that A10 is batting for A4, but if the substitution is unannounced, intent doesn't matter and the PH is always for the proper batter. So we have two po
aaluck
He cannot hit for A5--actually he can, just not when he did. A5 made the last out of the previous inning and as such the 'new order' was established as there was no appeal in THAT inning. The next p
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