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Talked to a pretty high level umpire today and asked about it and he said the same thing as the other umpire...unless intentional interference, no double play.
Bottom line is this, he said. Infield fly causes batter to be out and you therefore cannot interfere with trying to get the same guy out a 2nd time (there was no other play other than on the batter...the runners were frozen and not attempting to advance). If on the other hand intentional, then you would be interfering with the intent of advancing your runner at 3rd for example.
He also said that since the ball was not in the vicinity of the baseline, that there should not be interference anyways.
Kind of interesting to hear all the different opinions...not sure I feel any closer to the answer.
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