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Legal or Not? You Decide!

Found June 14, 2007 on SporTech Matter:
PLAYERS: Travis Hafner
TEAMS: Cleveland Indians

Travis Hafner appears to be always outside of the batters box. Is this legal or no? Rules of the batters box state that if one foot is outside of the box and the ball is hit in play, the batter is out.
Original Story: http://www.sportech.info/2007/06/14/l...
5 Comments:
  • I don't think you'd ever see that called. For one, the catcher would have to point it out to the ump. The ump would never call that on his own. Beyond that, Hafner would probably just get a warning. Hafner's definitelyl out of the box and that's illegal, but I'll be this happens more than we know. It's one of those accepted, bend the rules type plays.
    by Prince   June 14, 2007   Reply   Options  
  • The real problem here is simple. The guys hitting before him need to clear the lines out. The unwritten rule is, even if you hit in the other batters-box, you find a way to kick out the chalk lines so the deemed hitter does not have to worry about this being called.
    by sportnut   June 14, 2007   Reply   Options  
  • The batter is out but is the ball dead or can runners advance off of the hit?
    by lqueen   July 14, 2007   Reply   Options  
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