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Old Tue Aug 09, 2005, 03:04am
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Originally posted by JEAPU2000
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Originally posted by DG

My inclination is nothing, but I would not try to decide intent, if he brought his bat back and made the catcher drop the ball on a steal attempt I have pretty much the same thing as I would if he took a swing at an outside pitch and ended up out in front of the plate. Did he interfere or not, intent has nothing to do with it, and I can't read minds. When he takes a big swing and his backswing knocks the ball out of the catcher's mitt I am pretty sure that is not intentional either. [/B]
DG, in OBR, if a batter's backswing iinterferes, even if a runner is stealing, it's nothing. With a runner moving then it's a dead ball and runner goes back (if the throw doesn't get him). BUT, that's only if you think it's unintentional. If it's intentional, then you have interference. I would find it hard to believe a batter could actually orchestrate that, but I guess it's possible. Anyway, no we can't read minds, but an instance like this is one where we need to determine if something was done intentionally. [/B][/QUOTE]

For OBR game call it soft interference but in Fed that batter is out. end of story, intentional or not.
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