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I imagine that in the early days of baseball there was a problem with runners kicking ground balls to keep fielders from fielding them, so they invented the interference rule. To make it clear enough they made the rule so that it did not have to be intentional, but just getting hit by the ball when a fielder had a chance at it resulted in a penalty. They also made it not interference if it was first touched by a fielder and then touches the batter, because at least a fielder had a chance at it. Now if the 1B man is holding the runner and the ball goes by him and hits the batter, he had his chance and the RF has no chance at fielding a ground ball and throwing out anyone at 2B or 1B so your ruling protecting this ball all the way to the fence defies logic.
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