UmpSteve wrote:I am on a road trip, ASA, so no NCAA rulebook handy to cite rule numbers.
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Yes, NCAA treats a pitch that is prevented from reaching the plate as a no pitch, you cannot acll a strike because you judge it would have been one. But that has no bearing the play being discussed, where the ball DID enter the strike zone, then hit the batter deeper in the box.
Here is the NCAA rule. Written differently than ASA 7-4-M, but interpreted and applied the same?
11.16.3.4 The batter is hit by a pitch out of the front of the batter’s box, assuming she did not swing or attempt to bunt.
EFFECT—“No Pitch.”