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Originally Posted by BCCanuck
Well.... in the Quirky country of Canada, the casebook Rule 8 ,case 231 gives the following-"The batter hits a pitched ball on the ground towards first. The batted ball is touched by the batter-runner in his advance toward first The touching is :
a) intentional
b) accidental, ball on fair ground, hasn't passed an IF
c) accidental on fair foul ground
d) accidental, on fair ground, has passed an IF
RULING:
a)and b)-Dead ball, Out for interference. 
c) Foul ball, no interference 
d) Fair Ball, no interference, unless deliberate contact was
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I'm assuming the correction above...
Anyway, the problem is that the ASA book very carefully inserts "fair" into the interference rules on a runner with a batted ball, as in "makes contact with a fair batted ball..." in 8-2-F-4.
ASA makes no provision for intent here; it doesn't matter as far as the ASA book is concerned.
Contact with a batted ground ball in foul territory by
a player is definitionally a foul ball (1-FOUL BALL-C). The rule makes no distinction between an offensive or defensive player.