These muckymucks can make whatever proclamations they like regarding what they THOUGHT they meant when they wrote a rule. But absent something sent to EVERYONE from these guys, I have to go by the book. Else how will protests be upheld or declined?
This is obstruction, plain and simple.
Now - if the catcher catches the ball, and his approach into the basepath without the ball did not slow the runner, we have an out.
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