You Make The Call!

• cruiser_96

  

  Switch hitter vs. Switch Pitcher?????? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2oD8KzxS14
• Sonofanump

  Illegal.
• DeadliestWarrior34

  

  Yeah
• cruiser_96

  

  Sonofanump: which is illegal - the switch hitting or the switch pitching? Or both!?
• Curly J

  

  cruiser_96;1465605 wrote:Sonofanump: which is illegal - the switch hitting or the switch pitching? Or both!?

  Yes....
  
  I don't know. Just vague booking like sonofanump did.
• Sonofanump

  Switch-pitchers must choose which way they will begin pitching before they start. Then, batters will select with which hand they will bat. The batter and the pitcher are each allowed one switch during the plate appearance, after the first pitch is thrown.
  
  
  
• cruiser_96

  

  Sonofanump;1465623 wrote:Switch-pitchers must choose which way they will begin pitching before they start. Then, batters will select with which hand they will bat. The batter and the pitcher are each allowed one switch during the plate appearance, after the first pitch is thrown.
  
  
  

  When was this rule written? If this was written prior to this incident, when did this situation occur before that they wrote this rule? Or are you saying that someone at the higher levels had enough foresight to come up with this prior to this happening?
• sherm03

  

  Sonofanump;1465623 wrote:Switch-pitchers must choose which way they will begin pitching before they start. Then, batters will select with which hand they will bat. The batter and the pitcher are each allowed one switch during the plate appearance, after the first pitch is thrown.
  

  This isn't correct.
  
  The official MLB rule on the books is:

  Rule 8.01 (f) A pitcher must indicate visually to the umpire-in-chief, the batter and any runnersthe hand with which he intends to pitch, which may be done by wearing his glove
  on the other hand while touching the pitcher’s plate. The pitcher is not permitted to
  pitch with the other hand until the batter is retired, the batter becomes a runner, the
  inning ends, the batter is substituted for by a pinch-hitter or the pitcher incurs an
  injury. In the event a pitcher switches pitching hands during an at-bat because he
  has suffered an injury, the pitcher may not, for the remainder of the game, pitch
  with the hand from which he has switched. The pitcher shall not be given the
  opportunity to throw any preparatory pitches after switching pitching hands. Any
  change of pitching hands must be indicated clearly to the umpire-in-chief.

  The pitcher and batter can each change once PRIOR to the first pitch of the at-bat being delivered. But are not allowed to switch after the first pitch. I believe the ruling from this situation was that the pitcher gets the final switch (so the batter would have to switch first if they are going to switch...when the pitcher switches, it's over and the game then proceeds). But I don't believe that is officially on the book.
• hasbeen

  

  sherm03;1465865 wrote:This isn't correct.
  
  The official MLB rule on the books is:
  
  
  The pitcher and batter can each change once PRIOR to the first pitch of the at-bat being delivered. But are not allowed to switch after the first pitch. I believe the ruling from this situation was that the pitcher gets the final switch (so the batter would have to switch first if they are going to switch...when the pitcher switches, it's over and the game then proceeds). But I don't believe that is officially on the book.

  I can't wait until sonofanump responds.
• Curly J

  

  sherm03;1465865 wrote:This isn't correct.
  
  The official MLB rule on the books is:
  
  
  The pitcher and batter can each change once PRIOR to the first pitch of the at-bat being delivered. But are not allowed to switch after the first pitch. I believe the ruling from this situation was that the pitcher gets the final switch (so the batter would have to switch first if they are going to switch...when the pitcher switches, it's over and the game then proceeds). But I don't believe that is officially on the book.

  
  But was this an MLB Sanctioned game or some Independent League?
• gut

  How awesome would it be if a guy was good enough to pitch with either arm in the majors? Think of the possibilities. He could be a right-handed starter and left-handed closer, or he could be two parts of a 5-man rotation...
• sherm03

  

  Curly J;1465888 wrote:But was this an MLB Sanctioned game or some Independent League?

  The Staten Island Yankees are a Short-Season A affiliate of the Yankees. They are in the same league as the Mahoning Valley Scrappers. So they play by the MLB rules.
• bo shemmy3337

  I have no idea why but my mind is telling me the batter should get the upper hand here. I don't know if it's because I have never seen it before or not but I feel the pitcher is wrong.
• Belly35

  

  I'm sure many on the OC switches hands.
• said_aouita

  

  So stupid.
• Sonofanump

  sherm03;1465865 wrote: The official MLB rule on the books is:

  Good work.
• vball10set

  sherm03;1465865 wrote:This isn't correct.
  
  The official MLB rule on the books is:
  
  
  The pitcher and batter can each change once PRIOR to the first pitch of the at-bat being delivered. But are not allowed to switch after the first pitch. I believe the ruling from this situation was that the pitcher gets the final switch (so the batter would have to switch first if they are going to switch...when the pitcher switches, it's over and the game then proceeds). But I don't believe that is officially on the book.

  reps
• thavoice

  I remember back in the day in HS our coach would send a guy up lefthanded on occasion if the pitcher showed absolutely no ability to throw strikes to lefthanders. After one strike the batter would go back to the regular stance.