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So here is an excerpt from the USSSA rule book about batting out of order:
Given this scenario:
#8 batter is due up.
By mistake the #10 batter bats instead of him by and makes an out.
#9 batter enters the batters box.
The pitcher throws a pitch and then they realize it was the wrong batter (nothing you can do about it now).
The AB continues and the #9 batter hits a HR.
Based on the above rule, the defense could then appeal that the #9 batter was in fact batting out of order since the #1 batter should have been batting.
Correct?
I've never seen this happen as a player or ump, just thought it was interesting.
EFFECT Sec. 1. A-E. Batting out of order is an appeal play by the defense.
3. If the mistake was not discovered until a pitch is made to the next batter,
the turn at bat of the incorrect batter is then legal. All bases advanced or runs
scored are counted, the next following batter shall be the one whose name fol-
lows that of the incorrect batter who just finished a time at bat. No one is called
out for failure to bat and players missing their turn at bat have lost that turn and do not bat again until reached in the regular batter rotation.
Given this scenario:
#8 batter is due up.
By mistake the #10 batter bats instead of him by and makes an out.
#9 batter enters the batters box.
The pitcher throws a pitch and then they realize it was the wrong batter (nothing you can do about it now).
The AB continues and the #9 batter hits a HR.
Based on the above rule, the defense could then appeal that the #9 batter was in fact batting out of order since the #1 batter should have been batting.
Correct?
I've never seen this happen as a player or ump, just thought it was interesting.