WCB,
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Originally posted by jpc2119
I saw a thing on ESPN tonight about this and was wondering your opinions...
Batter bunts a ball right out in front of the plate, as BR starts to run to 1B, F2 makes contact with him in fair territory out in front of the plate when he fields the ball and subsiquently throws the ball into center field. I know that the fielder has the right to the ball, but the BR instinctivly would run towards 1B as he has nowhere else to go and it didn't look intentional. Is the runner out for interference? And would R1 end up back at 1B?
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It looks like in jpc's original post that the contact initiated by the BR "didn't look intentional". That pretty much tells me not to call interference. You said "we don't know that from the play description..." Uh, yes we do!
We sure don't need the J/K manuals, or an old Umpire Development manual to call this play properly. It is pretty cut and dried. Let's save these references for the tough calls.
By the way, the PBUC manual, as well as many other fine publications, are available for purchase to the public, so everyone has access to them.
I don't have any problem when someone disagrees or differs with me, as long as they are right, or I am wrong. Neither was true in this case.
You probably don't even realize you do it, or maybe you do, but you have a bad habit of talking down to people. You are condescending, and act superior to others. The comments about the manuals are examples of this behavior.