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Originally posted by GarthB
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Originally posted by carldog
OK. Even though I believe I'm in over my head in this discussion, let me try an observation.
R1 advances toward second and *sees that he has been forced out at second. His 'play' is now over. If he chooses to remain in a position that alters the throw from second baseman to first, or if he is actually struck by the thrown ball from second, I would likely judge that action to be intentionally interferring with a thrown ball: Interference/DP.
Get down, get out of the way, your play is over. You have no right to be in the play. You're out.
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This assumes a slow evolving play. My resistance to calling interference was based on the play in which the fielder tags the base and make a throw to first nearly simultaneously, giving the runner no time to evade. This is the DP I see most often.
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But that is not the situation that is described int he thread. The situation here was that the runner was 30 feet from the bag. If you are that far from the bag you can see that you are going to be put out, that you have no chance of making it to the bag and that you now need to get out of the way. If that is not the case then I am going to start teaching my runners to stay up the whole time unless the ball is going to hit you in the face. Take it for the team and get the guy to first and save an out.
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