Kent,
The difference between the play at 1st and the play at home is that F3 was making a play on a batted ball. That makes all the difference. Any contact between a runner and a fielder fielding a batted ball is interference. That's the point I was trying to make. If F3 was trying to gain control of a thrown ball which pulled him into the runner's path, then I agree with you; there would probably not be interference in that case.
--Sam
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