Does a pitched baseball that hits the ground or base before hitting the batter count as a Hit By Pitch?

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Is Albert Pujols going to do better or worse this year?

Let me give you the way it was explained to me by Major League umpire Charlie Reliford when I was confused about it.

"Can the batter hit a pitch that bounced out of the park for a home run? Yes, then the live pitched ball has hit a batter: thus, a hit batsman."

I never forgot that -- REMEMBER just b/c a pitch hit the ground it is not a dead ball! If it were a runner could not advance on a wild pitch / passed ball.

How does cork in a bat help hit the baseball further?

nope, it has to hit the batter before hitting the ground!
plus i have only seen it happen once !

Will the orioles even win 70 games this season?

Actually it doesnt, surprisingly, they figured that if its intent was to hit the ground (to induce a strikeout) it might just have ricocheted thus not necessarily a pitcher error, and it was a ball that possibly had no intent to hit the batter but did anyway. Down and in is very hard to control also so that possibly plays a part in it.

Red Sox or Yankees? Why?

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooo...

MN Twins question?

No.

Whose beater cubs or sox in baseball in 2007?

No it does not it hit the ground so it isn't really a pitch

Do you think us baseball fans are more brutal than football/basketball fans?

Of course, as long as the batter tried to avoid being hit and he didn't swing.

Why do some "people" think that emmit "don't know when to retire" smith was better than Barry Saunders?

yep. if u watched the phillies the other day i5t happened to jimmy rollins

Carl Pavano... Why don't they Just Trade this idiot!?

Yes it does,these people that say it doesn't don't have a clue