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Originally posted by greymule
College FP game, NCAA rules.
Runner on 3B, no outs.
Batter takes ball 1 and steps backward out of the box. As she is holding her bat in front of herself, adjusting her grip on it, F2 attempts a pickoff at 3B, though it is more an attempt to keep the runner honest than a real try at an out.
The batter reacts with a slight downward flinch of the head.
The ball hits the batter in the helmet and sails over the dugout.
Would you allow the run to score or call interference on the batter (or something else)?
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The rule is obviously clear.
However (bet you knew that was coming), if this progressed at the pace I felt while reading the scenario, it might be nothing more than a DMC.
I'm seeing a batter, regaining her balance after a pitch, stepping back, two or three steps toward foul territory. Do not the catchers at the collegiate level receive the ball, stand and step up on or across the plate to insure a good, crisp return to the pitcher?
I must be missing something because I don't see the batter being in line with a throw to 3B and the catcher's reaction to the runner seemed slow while progressing through the scenario.