Talk:Foul tip

As of the date and time of this post this Article contained the sentence:

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A foul tip is always a strike, regardless of the existing ball-and-strike count.

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That sentence might be wrong. There was a recent game in which there were two strikes, and the next pitch resulted in a vigorous swing of the bat foul-tipped the ball. If the sentence above were true, that's the same as a strike. The catcher failed to catch the ball. If the sentence quoted above were true, making the foul-tip count as a strike, then the "uncaught third strike rule" would have been triggered, and the runner would have commenced running to first with the catcher trying to recover the baseball and get that batter (now a runner) out. Instead, play proceeded as if the batter had hit an uncaught foul ball having two strikes. Thus the count of strikes remained at two, and the pitcher continued pitching to this batter. I've done some research and apparently if there are two strikes and then there's a foul tip, it is Strike Three ONLY IF the catcher catches it. Otherwise, such a foul tip becomes a foul ball, not a third Strike.2600:8804:8800:11F:1C64:8308:33BC:E2D6 (talk) 21:08, 4 October 2021 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson