Talk:Uncaught third strike

message: The article should mention that when the batter reaches base, the advance is attributed to a passed ball charged to the catcher, unless the batter swung and missed a very bad pitch, in which case a wild pitch may be charged to the pitcher.  Now and again, the scorer charges an error instead, as when the catcher makes a bad throw to first. WHPratt (talk) 15:16, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scoring the Play 

message: Is "uncaught" even a word? I've never heard it used in any situation, let alone as a baseball term. I've always heard it referred to as a "dropped third strike", which the article does state is inaccurate. I think it would help to give a source for the "accurate" name of this term. Ksy92003 (talk) 02:41, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed it is a word. Programmers hear it quite frequently (as in "uncaught exception")... -- DevSolar (talk) 09:13, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Uncaught" 

message: An uncaught ball on either a swinging third strike or called third strike with first base unoccupied or with first base occupied with two outs shall provide opportunity for the batter to become a runner.
An uncaught ball on a swinging third strike which hits the batter is considered an out.  Source:  Buster Posey, catcher and Jon Miller, announcer, 07/19/10, Giants vs. Dodgers.  Batter swung at third strike which hit the dirt, and then hit the batter.  Batter called out.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.141.115.122 (talk) 05:45, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: When a pitch hits a batter, the ball is dead (play is suspended).  As one consequence of that, the batter is out in the above situation because he cannot advance to first base while play is suspended.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justus R (talk • contribs) 15:23, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification on type of uncaught third strike 

message: Example: 0 outs, 0 on bases, count is 0-2 and the pitcher delivers a very bad pitch. Can the batter swing and try to the first base? I mean slightly after the pitch is gone, when he sees that uncaught third strike gets him to first, while not swinging only adds one ball to the count. 87.95.210.191 (talk) 03:59, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing in the rules prohibits swinging at a bad pitch.  Unless the pitch were spectacularly wild, it would be quite risky for the batter, as with any kind of recovery at all, the catcher will still throw him out.  If the batter waits until the ball bounces into the stands or dugout, the umpire will have called it a "ball" by then and the swing would be invalid, I suspect. WHPratt (talk) 14:38, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abuse of the rule possible? 

message: The article mentions that a batter would be out on a dropped third strike. Unless T-ball has changed considerably since my kids played, there is no such thing as a dropped or uncaought third strike; they are hitting the ball off a tee, hence the name. I sort of think that in fact the idea of a strike in not a part of T-ball; players swing until they hit the ball. Wschart (talk) 23:58, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading that made me scratch my head, too. It is tempting to rewrite those last two sentences in that paragraph for cleanup, and leave the T-ball out of it. Huw Powell (talk) 02:26, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  T-ball