Can switch-hitting batters switch sides during an at-bat?

Answer 1

Good question...I've often wondered that myself.

According to this, you can: batter may switch to the other box after every pitch if he so desires. He may do it on any ball strike count. One of the oldest myths in baseball is the one that says you can't switch boxes when you have two strikes on you.
The only restriction on the batter is that he may not step into the other box after the pitcher is in position ready to pitch. Rule 6.06(b)
See the rule in the Official Baseball Rules

Answer 2

Switch Hitting Rules

Answer 3

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Can switch-hitting batters switch sides during an at-bat?

Answer 4

Switch Hitter Rules

Answer 5

If the pitcher is changed.

I've seen it happen. But when a pitcher comes into the game, he has to pitch to at least one batter before he can be removed from the game.

On the flip side of this question, two men have pitched from both sides during a single game. The ambidextrous Greg Harris did pitch left-handed once, while with the Expos, and in a home game. Do you remember the area behind the plate at The Big O,
the area with the glass? On his first left-handed pitch in the majors, Harris was a bit wild, and broke that glass.

Harris was not the first man to pitch with both arms in the major leagues, but he was the first in the "modern" era. This is the entry from the 1st edition of "Total Baseball"

July 18, 1882
Ambidextrous hurler Tony Mullane of Louisville pitches with both hands in a major league game at Baltimore. Normally a righthander, Mullane switches to the left hand in the fourth inning. He does quite well for several innings but eventually loses to Baltimore, 9-8.

Answer 6

Of course...but not likely. All depends upon whether the pitcher is left handed or right handed. If there is a pitching change in the middle of an at bat a switch hitter will always switch sides....again -- depending on the pitcher.

Answer 7

A switch hitter may change on each pitch. An ambidextrous pitcher must decide when the batter comes to the plate, and continue to use the same arm as long as that batter is at the plate.

Answer 8

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David E., the reference is 6.06 (b), not in 6.05. The batter can switch sides, but is out if he does so while the pitcher is in contact with the rubber. The only mention of the subject is "A batter is out for illegal action when ...(b) He steps from one batter’s box to the other while the pitcher is in position ready to pitch"

Answer 9

I was a switch hitter when I played high school and college baseball. We weren't allowed to switch once we got up to bat. My batting coach always told me how he wanted me to bat when I was up.

I don't remember every seeing a professional baseball game where the batter changed positions after swinging.

Answer 10

Yes, so long as they don't change from one batter's box to the other while the pitcher is in position ready to pitch. In that case, the batter would be called out.