I love seeing someone lay down a nice bunt, especially when it's to the open side of the field during a shift. It drives me nuts seeing guys try to beat the shift when no one is standing anywhere near third base.
As far as I can tell, the whole ball never crossed the whole of the line. Even it did, human reaction times are non-zero and if it rolls back one millimetre in the time it takes the signal to go from the brain to the hand that might be enough to make it a fair ball. Plus the umpire may call it fair in any case.
3rd baseline bunts always win, I had the highest average for over half a season because of bunts, it's colt league,everyone was too scared to do them when signaled and would have to run laps the next day at practice, I was fat and hated running.
He probably didn't think he could get the batter out by throwing, so he waited and hoped the ball would go foul so he could pick it up. Unfortunately for him the ball stayed fair.
They were hoping that it would roll foul because they knew they weren't going to be able to throw him out at first. If the ball is picked up to the left of the line (or the right if it's on the first base side), it counts as a strike instead of a hit
he's waiting for the ball to roll over the line, becasue if it does, it would be counted as a foul ball and the runner needs to go back to batting box.
Yeah, it's a strike if he misses the ball while holding the bat in a bunting position and you can hold the bat in a bunting position before the pitch. Guys don't do that very often because they want to catch the pitcher and defense by surprise. Sometimes a pitcher will show bunt before the pitch because pretty much everybody already knows they are going to bunt. Sorry for the very long response
This is like a bunting highlight for kids 30 and under. Go watch the Greats from the 80’s and 90’s like Brett Butler and Otis Nixon. They have many bunts better than anything on this clip.
so a bunch of these have players making contact with one foot out of the box. to be clear, the foot needs to be fully out of the box and on the ground. I hate when calls are missed
29proto it's like the speed limit. the rule there but it's rarely enforce just because it's impractical and the game functions normally without it. It's just understood by real players that that's part of how baseball is played.
29proto you're laughable. You obviously have never played the game and don't have a running understanding of its rules. That is going to be called very rarely cause 1) some rule just aren't enforced in the actual playing of the sport (which is made obvious in the above video) and 2) most umpires won't be able to judge that as they're primarily watching the pitch. Yes, it's a rule. But no, it is not enforced regularly and that's fine, a byproduct of actually playing the game; something it's obvious you've never done.
I use to bat 2nd and was frequently signaled to bunt, I had the highest average for over half a season because I was always getting on base from line drive, 3rd baseline hunts, I never hit a home run though!
