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Old Mon May 24, 2004, 04:07pm
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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W-Sohl, I think his point was that all other interference is immediate dead ball, so why not this one.

That is the only valid point he made, but in the opposite direction in my opinion. I think ALL interference should be delayed dead ball. Imagine R1 and R2, R2 interferes with shortstop on a grounder, unintentionally. Could have been a DP, but not obviously enough that we call it as such.

Why not let them play it out and give defense the option of taking the play, or calling R2 out and putting B on 1st, R1 on 2nd?

But, as written, the only interference that is not dead ball is batter interfering with catcher. (This is about the time Mike R will add his sage wisdom including some other interference that never happens that is also a live ball - I am sure I forgot something! )
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