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Originally Posted by ChuckElias
Jeez, Inge bobbles the grounder, throws wild to home and gets called for interference all in the same play. I gotta trust the umps, but Inge didn't seem to be anywhere near the basepath. He was practically in the coaching box. What's the rule on interference?
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Ok, I'm not a baseball umpire, but I believe the "baseline" is considered the natural path of the runner, not necessarily the straight line between bases. It looked like the right call to me.