What is the penalty for charging the mound with a bat in hand?

Question

Does it matter if you never actually swing it?

Answer 1

If you don't swing it, you'll still probably get one game, or at least a small fine. If you're stopped before reaching the mound, then you'll probably just get ejected.

Answer 2

that depends on if you use it. more if you do less if you dont. Juan Marichal used it decades ago and got banned.

Answer 3

Ask Juan Merichel, oh wait he swung at the person, and almost ended the guys career

and now they are best friends

Answer 4

Probably the same penalty that Roger Clemens got for throwing a broken bat at Mike Piazza as Piazza was running to first.

This happened a few seasons back.

Videos of it are still out there in Cyberland.