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batting out of turn

a violation of the rules of baseball when a player comes to bat when it is another player's turn in the batting order; on appeal by the fielding team, the batter is out.

Wikipedia and Wikis

Batting out of turn - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batting_out_of_turn

Other

A list of cases where a team has had batters bat out of turn
http://www.retrosheet.org/outturn.htm

Related Terms

bat out of order (vi): (of a batter) to bat when it is another player's turn in the batting order; on appeal by the fielding team, the batter is out.
Synonyms: bat out of order, batted out of order, bat out of turn, batted out of turn

Keywords and Synonyms

batting out of turn, batting out of order