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Old Sun Jun 20, 2004, 08:37pm
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Originally posted by akalsey
If a runner and a fielder collide, both on the move, but neither looking at each other, what's the call? My gut feeling is that the runner is called for interference if the fielder's making a play on a batted ball, but the fielder is called for obstruction otherwise.

Is that right?
Sounds reasonable, given the limited information. Definitely, if the fielder is fielding a batted ball and collides with a runner then we have interference. In OBR there would need to be a play being made on the runner for obstruction to be called. Example, SS and R2 collide on a ball hit to 2B, who throws to 1B. Collision between SS and R2 is nothing in this case.
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