by GIMNEPIWO » Sun May 21, 2017 3:39 am
So early in an NFHS game as I am returning to the dugout, the PU tells me he is going to call my slapper out if she hits the ball foul with 2 strikes on her ... I tell him she was not drag bunting, she was slapping ... He informs me that she was bunting because she slid her hands up the handle of the bat ... I let him know that that is what many slappers do and demonstrated to him what I meant ... He then informed me that it was a bunt because her hands were not together, there was a small separation in between them, which made it a bunt ... He then clarified that is what they are told to look for and it says so under the description of 'bunt' in the book ... Sooooooo ... I get out the book and write the definitions down on a piece of paper and stick it in my pocket for her next at bat instead of bringing the book out on the field and risk ejection ... The 2 strike situation didn't come up again ... My question is; the "hand separation thing" that she wasn't actually doing any way and I don't know why someone would intentionally have their hands separated to slap, or drag bunt for that matter ..., But Is that something Officials are being taught to look for or was this guy just grabbing at straws ?
"For the strength of the pack is the wolf, the strength of the wolf is the pack" Rudyard Kipling