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Old Wed May 17, 2006, 10:20pm
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Originally Posted by CoachJM
yankeesfan,

If the play you seen happened in the last day or so (Angels vs. Blue Jays perchance), I believe the call was actually umpire interference, not batter interference, in which case the rule was properly enforced.

If, on the other hand, it actually was ruled batter interference, the proper ruling would have been to call the batter out and return the runner (assuming the catcher's throw did not result in the stealing runner immediately being tagged out) - in both FED and OBR.

JM
thank you very much. it was the angels vs. blue jays. i did not realize that was umpire's interference. the announcers said it was batter interference, and actually the batter did not interfer at all so this makes sense now.
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