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Originally posted by mcrowder
What are you disagreeing with?
Mike said the runner is not out .... if the runner could not avoid contact with the ball.
You are bringing intentional interference into question - which has NOTHING to do with the situation where a runner "could not avoid contact with the ball". The very nature of INTENTIONAL interference is that if the runner was unABLE to avoid the ball, the contact could not be INTENTIONAL.
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I agree that the situation as described did not include intent and as by rule would not be interference.
What I disagree with is the blanket statement someone made that a runner can not be called out if the ball was deflected off of a defender. That's all. I simply brought up the point about intent to refute the statement.
Sorry this seemed to bother you.