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The ball is dead as soon as it hit the runner and the runner is out for interference. If it were a routine fly ball (fair or foul) that the defense could have caught with ordinary effort, the batter would also be out. The batter in this case receives a fielders choice and their time at bat is completed. With less than two outs this still would be the case. The only ways we would get two here is what I stated earlier about a fly ball or on interference with a thrown ball that in the umpires judgement is an obvious attempt to prevent a double play and occurs before the runner is put out. The immediate succeeding runner shall also be called out. The third way we would get two outs is if a runner has already been declared out or after scoring, a runner intentionally interferes with a defensive player's opportunity to make a play on another runner. In this case the runner closest to home at the time of the interference shall also be declared out.
[Edited by Ed Maeder on Jun 25th, 2004 at 02:08 PM]
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