And this is why I'll never call for USSSA (besides the fact that I retired from the field). They spent the time to write a rulebook, yet when someone cries loudly enough that they don't like a call, they roll over and follow some hidden "Anti-Bush-League" rulebook that they magically pull out of their pocket to keep teams happy.
Let's look at what the USSSA rulebook
actually defines as a bunt.
BUNT refers to a batted ball not swung at, but is intentionally met with the bat and tapped slowly.
It says it's not swung at. It doesn't say
anything at all about how hard a swing must be, only that it's not swung at. A gentle swing, while bush league,
is still a swing, like it or not.
It also says a bunt is when the ball is "met with the bat" and "tapped slowly." Guys, you know exactly what they're talking about - A BUNT! The batter holds the bat relatively still, and he taps the ball slowly to barely put it into play. A partial swing that puts the ball over the infielder's heads is not a bunt.
I'm calling USSSA out on the carpet for stuff like this. This is where USSSA loses all credibility as an organization that follows its own rules, because they make **** up as they go, just to keep teams paying. Years ago, there was a thread on here where a coach properly protested his batter being called out for touching first base while still holding the bat on a home run. The book explicitly said the rule did not apply on home runs, but when the protest was run up the flagpole with all the proper verbiage and quotations from USSSA's book, their highest "rule interpreter" upheld the out. Shame on him.
Blues (or Reds, in your case), I don't envy you. You have to do as your bosses tell you, and I get it. "When in Rome," right? But come on, U-Trip, if you're going to take the time to write a book, at least have the common sense to either follow it or change it.
What a joke.