Shouldn't you have been ruled out for interfering with the ball? I guess the umpire probably couldn't see well either.
During little league fielding practice the coach who was hitting balls out for us to catch managed to hit two straight towards me in a row. The first was a pop fly, which I lost track of because the second was a hard grounder, that was bouncing all over the place. While I was concentrating on fielding the grounder the pop fly came down right on top of my head.
My story for the bounty is also from little league baseball. My dad was our coach (he wasn't the coach in the previous story) and he was trying to incentivize someone to make a big hit. He said something like "Anyone who can hit it over the fence gets a burger on me." My best friend, who was also the most talented player on our team, was up next and sure enough he hit the ball over the fence...to the right of the field directly into my dad's truck window. It was the little triangular window on the driver's side that old trucks used to have that sort of swings open. Apparently, those little windows are way more expensive to replace than the much larger window right next to them. After the game, my friend insisted on getting his burger.
Haha 😂😂 a deals a deal. Broken smoking window or not, kid earned his burger as per the terms of the deal. Gotta pay up or that kid (and everyone else watching) will never believe you ever again.
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I wish I had remembered what that little window was called. Yep, line drive straight to the smoking window.
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It came to me as I was reading your post. They opened almost backwards and it was so you could have your smoke on out the window without having to put down the whole window.
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No the runner is in play. Any ball thrown that hits the runner is a live ball. A batted ball that hits the runner is interference and the runner is out.
Haha that's a great story. We never had a broken window during a practice or a game but definitely had a couple balls bounce off the hood of a car.
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I'll add that the burger incentive was an especially big backfire, because he was specifically targeting my friend with it. Years earlier (it might have even been tee-ball), he offered a burger to anyone who could hit a home run and my friend drilled one out of the park with his first swing.
Wording matters.
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Theres plenty you could get me to do for the promise of a free meal.
I once hired a van and worked all day helping a friend of mine move house... For a couple beers and a pizza... The van hire was £100 with a £1000 security deposit (I got that back because obviously I didnt steal the van or damage it).
You feed me, you get to put me to work, I'm a simple human.
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