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scyguy
The editor of this webpage explained your question this way:
In professional baseball a play is "imminent" when the throw enters the infield. That is defined as entering the "dirt area" indentified as infield.
In college baseball a play is "imminent" when the ball enters the triangle formed by a direct line from first to third base through the mound and anchored by home plate.
The National Federation of High Schools has not identified by ruling a definition for the word "imminent". In Oregon we had a rash of coaches asking for "catcher interference" on play much like what is in example "a" as listed above.
With the lack of a definition this becomes a situation where, as I tell my umpire class, "you sometimes have to umpire!" I am with Bob Jenkins that the example above is clearly an "imminent" play and therefore is nothing.
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