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Gee:
I could tell that the throw was probably going to be too late
If that part is true, then why would you have INT at all? The defense screwed up. Absent a "blatant and avoidable" action by the batter, this isn't interference. If the batter INTENTIONALLY gets in the way of the throw, OK. But nowhere was that even implied. The poster implied that the batter got out of the way, and in so doing, happened to get into the path of the ball that was being thrown back to the plate. It's not the batter's responsibility to watch where the ball bounces and find a spot that avoids the throwing lane. It was the catcher's responsibility to catch the pitch to begin with! If the batter makes a legitimate effort to get out of the way and just happens to wind up in the throwing lane, that isn't interference.
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