Mon Dec 05, 2005, 11:19pm
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Originally posted by thomaswhite
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Originally posted by Mike Walsh
In Papa C's article today he describes a play under Fed rules with runners on 2nd and 3rd, 1 out, and the batter bunts. The pitcher's throw home retires R3, and F2's throw to first hits the batter outside the running lane. His choices for ruling on the play were a) dead ball, inning over; b) dead ball, R2 returns to 2nd; c) ignore batter interference due to intervening play; or d) live ball, play stands, B1 on 1st and R2 to 3rd with 2 outs.
His analysis of the play comes down to the fact that the umpire has to know that an intervening play is not relevant to this play (because we are not using OBR), and that the batter-runner interfered by running outside of the lane.
Am I missing something? Why isn't the batter out, and the ball dead, with runners returning?
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I can't or didn't see the article but I would like to take a shot at the answer.
BR interfered with a thrown ball and is out number 3. Dead ball, inning over.
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The play in the article has the runner running with his left foot on the line, not out of the lane.
The runner was thus in the lane so there is no interference.
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