 At one point we looked at the six most common types of outs or ways that a batter can be put out and I said in that video that there are a lot more than six and so someday I would come back and make a video and fill in the rest so that's what we're going to do this will be one in a continuing series so what I want to look at here are four ways that are kind of let's say they're technical outs or they're kind of in the sense that the ball doesn't have to be in play in order for the batter we're just talking about the batter here to be called out for them and so the first way that we can look at is if the batter hits a ball with one or both feet on the ground entirely outside the batter's box so he hits a ball with one both feet on the ground and so obviously the batter's box is this area here that is painted in chalk on either side of home plate and this drawing is obviously not to scale where home plate is much smaller than the batter's boxes but basically this rule is saying that the batter must stay within his feet have to be inside the box the whole time so if his feet are here and here that means he's good and his foot can be on the line and a lot of times this is where you'll see a major league batter stand will kind of kick the dirt away and they'll try to get as far back as they possibly can in the batter's box but as soon as the batter steps for whatever reason if he squares around to bunch and he steps out here or up here if he hits the ball when his feet are entirely outside the box then the umpire can call him out the second way that we can look at is if the batter steps from one batter's box to the other while the pitcher is in position to pitch if the batter steps from one batter's box to the other when the pitcher is in position to pitch so this isn't really something that would happen all that common and really none of these rules that we're looking at here are all that common of situations but this one obviously would be if we have a batter and this would be a batter usually they would pick either a right handed batter and they would bat on this side or they're a left handed batter and they would bat on this side but on occasion there are some batters who are called switch hitters so let's write that down just these are switch hitters and they can bat from either side of the plate and so this is just a skill that they have taught themselves to be able to do that and that might give them an advantage depending on whether they're facing a left handed or right handed pitcher usually so this rule is basically saying once the pitcher is ready to pitch you have to stay in the batter's box and that could arise in the very rare situation that you actually get a switch pitcher who is able to throw the ball with either hand and that's a very rare situation but that's another way that that could pop up but basically it's saying once the pitcher is ready the batter has to stay in the box he's in the next way is if the batter interferes with the catcher's fielding or throwing by stepping out of the batter's box or making another movement that hinders the catcher so this is he the batter interferes with the catcher's fielding or throwing by stepping out of the box the batter's box or by making another movement so this will be on I think we've discussed this before if if there's a batter attempting or a runner attempting to say steal a base in the batter if the catcher stands up to throw the ball the third base in the batter might take a step back out of the batter's box to get in his way then the umpire could call him out now something important to remember is that the batter he is entitled to his space in the box so as long as he you know if he stands there and he doesn't move then he's perfectly within his rights to do that but he basically this is saying that he can't you know step out of the box or or make a movement you know when he's in the box he can't you know hold his hands up or something like that to try to block the catcher so the final thing to look at is is probably something that you know you certainly never want to do if you're a batter and that is if you if you batter uses a bat that has been altered or tampered with and to cause a you know the batter to be better than it you know to be outside the rules and there are certain rules that we that there are that about what a bat can be can only be a certain size and so when it can't be you know filled with certain materials so let's write this out first he uses uses or attempts to use so I guess if they catch you you know before you actually get to hit the ball then they can call you out in advance a bat that has been altered or tampered with to improve the distance of the ball and distance that it will hit the ball so this could be something like something that has happened in recent years is if a player puts cork will hollow out the inside of the bat and they'll put cork in instead of wood which would actually make it lighter and so and some people are you know that's it's so miniscule this may not help but but basically the rules say it you know the bat has to be solid wood solid wood and and so so this is really the the the worst way or you know of these four that you can do because not only can you be called out but but in especially if you do it in a higher leagues you can actually get suspended and oftentimes you will if you are caught using an illegal bat so these are four you know kind of technical ways that a batter can be caught out