Hunter Pence hits a ball 3 times in 1 swing!

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Kyle -

Awesome video!

Did they call him out? The ruling is that if contact the ball with the bat more than once in the swing, it is an automatic out.

Actually 'double' contact happens more than people think, but due to bat speeds of MLB players know, it's almost invisible to the naked eye.

I can't say I've ever seen evidence of a 'three hit swing' before though!

Thanks for sharing!

- Smitty

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I thought it was the rule that a batter was out if the bat hit the ball a second time, but the commentators indicated that was not the case for a broken bat. What does the rulebook actually say? (I'm rushing to help babysit our three little grandsons, and don't have time to look it up.)

The replay technology was awesome: I've never seen replays show the ball-bat collision so closely. Physicist baseball fans could have a rich source of data from that! If such double-collisions (or other occurences) do happen a lot faster than a human eye can perceive, they may have to re-write some rules in the future.