Recently there was a contoversial play that took place during one of my high school games. I was catching, there were two outs, and two strikes on the batter, I called for an outside fastball... the pitch was wild, the batter swung, strike three, i blocked the ball, it bounced off of my chest towards my left, the batter threw his bat and proceeded running to first. I went to play the ball, when i kneeled to grab it the bat smacked the ball, altering its course. The contact was inadvertant, the batter did not try to hit the ball. I was still able to field the ball, and threw to first, our first baseman did not make the catch, and the runner was safe. I felt that the ball was dead when the bat hit it, and so did my coach. The umpires (who were very puzzled by the play) stood speechless for a while, and our coach debated the call with the other coach. The clueless umpires had no idea, so they decided to disregard the play, and called the batter safe. Our coach went and studied the MHSAA rule book, he could not find an answer to the play, and the umpires told us that they would check it out, i really doubt that they actually did. Im asking you all to voice your opinions, what do you think the call is?