pic: Cannot capture if you park under a climbing robot

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by s_forbes

If you read "BATTER in front of that face" to mean any portion of the batter past the plane of that external face of the tower, then none of the captures seen in competition would have been legal.

Fortunately for the teams who executed such captures, the rule outside the parentheses is very clear about what contact it refers to, without any mention of planes and projections. It's all about the attached RUNGS and the associate third of the BATTER below them.