Baseball ,If you are standing on a base in fair territory and are hit by a batted ball are you out or safe?

Question

Baseball ,If you are standing on a base in fair territory and are hit by a batted ball are you out or safe?

Answer 1

On it - safe.

Off it - out.

Answer 2

listen to Fozzy.

Being on the base does not exempt you from being called for interference. If a fair batted ball touches a runner before it passes a fielder or is touched by a fielder, then the runner is out for interference regardless of where the runner was (unless he was in foul teritory coming from 3rd base, in which case it becomes a foul ball and there is no interference call).

The only 2 exceptions are the ones fozzy mentioned:

1: If the infield fly rule has been called, then the runner has not interfered with the fielders ability to get the batter out, so it s not interference

2: if the ball already passed a fielder, then the fielder already had his chance to make a play and its not interference.

Being on a base does not mean you can never be out. Here are a few examples

1. being hit by a ground ball as mentioned above

2. if you are forced to advance on a batted ball but for some reason you stay on your base, you can be tagged out or be called out if the next base is tagged for the force out.

3. if you run from 1st, past 2nd, then a fly ball is caught, you return to 2nd to tag up and you stay there, you're out if you are tagged or if 1st base is tagged for the appeal

4. if you are standing on a base and a runner in front of you goes back to that base, you are no longer safe on that base (unless that runner is forced to advance, in which case you get the base and they are the one that can be put out)

Answer 3

If you're on it you're out, if you're off it you're out. If a fielder touches the ball and it hits you're not out but you either have to get back to the base or advance unless you're on the base. If you're leading off the base and you're hit in foul territory you're not out either.

Answer 4

you are safe becuase you are on the base if you are off the base you are out but since you are on the base and that makes you impossible to become out if the ball hits you.

Answer 5

Safe when ur on the base

Answer 6

You are safe because you are not in play.

Answer 7

You are out.  Fozzy is right.  This is not tag.

Answer 8

It depends on if the ball was over fair or foul territory at the moment it struck the runner.  

Anytime a runner is struck by a fair batteed ball that has not passed an infielder other than the pitcher he is out whether he is in contact with the base or not.  (EXCEPTION -- if a runner is in contact with a base and struck by a declared infield fly the runner is safe unless he intentionally interferes with the fielder attempting to catch the ball)

Answer 9

You are safe if you're on the bag, and if you're off, you're out.

Answer 10

out almost every time

Answer 11

since the ball has been batted, any contact with the runner and a ball before a fielder has touched it results in an out

being on the base does not exempt a runner from being out by a batted ball

the only exeption  (like Fozzy noted) are on an infield fly or if the ball is touched by a fielder before touching the batter

Answer 12

You are out with the following exceptions -

On a ball that is called an infield fly.

If the ball has either been touched by a fielder, or has passed a fielder other then the pitcher (if the infield is drawn in for example.)

Standing on the base does not change a thing.