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Originally Posted by voiceoflg
Say there is less than two outs and a runner on third. Easy ground ball to the shortstop. The catcher throws his mask up the third baseline a few feet. Runner comes home, throw comes home, runner has to dodge the headgear. Could interference be called on the catcher?
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Interference? No, but you've got a heck of a case for obstruction.
As for clearing the bat, I'll say what the rest of you won't. Many umpires
can't clear the bat because they're unable to bend over to do so. Case in point: Just watch some of the blimps working the Little League World Series. We sometimes forget that baseball is an athletic event. And the fact that some of these rotund fellows are tilting the field, well, you might was well put a Pall Mall in their mouth and set them up in a Barkalounger. Mix in a West Vest Gold, and there's no way on Earth that these guys are seeing a bat, much less picking it up off the ground.
I suspect that's the reason some here won't stoop to being a "grounds keeper" or "bat boy". They can't stoop.