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sj - in the situation described by the initial poster, the batter caught the ball. The ball never crossed the front of the plate. I suppose it's conceivable that the batter was set up VERY deep, and caught the ball very close to his body so that the ball barely crossed the front of the plate before it was caught. But surely this is picking nits.
Your dialog leads me to believe that you are motivated to call an out for interference. Not sure I see why. This is relaxed action, and there was no play to be played on. Maybe catching the ball was stupid, and warrants a "Don't Do That", but I can't see why, in the spirit of the rule, any softball organization would want a batter called out for this.
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