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Originally Posted by Rich Ives
Why was the runner in fair territory? No one at any level teaches coming off 3B in fair territory.
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... because the base is in fair territory. Even if a runner leads off in foul territory (as they should, like you pointed out) they have to momentarily reenter fair territory to return to the bag, just as a batter-runner has to leave the running lane to touch 1st.
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It's interference. Too bad.
A runner could "accidentally" get hit to stop a DP. And it would be hard to call it willful and deliberate in the situation you described.
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In this case, R3 was
not hit by the batted ball, he simply hindered F5's ability to catch it.