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Originally Posted by PeteBooth
No it wouldn't. Let's take Catcher's Interference. Catcher's interference is a delayed dead situation and for good reason. Suppose F2 interferes with B1 but B1 hits one out of the park, why should the ball be dead at that point? The offense has the option to accept the play or penalty.
The reason there are different sets of rules for the batter and runner make perfect sense. The reason the ball is Immediately dead concerning runners is simple. If not the game would resemble a farce.
Let's say we have a tie game in the bottom of seven. Runners on second/third. Ground ball to F6. R2 sees that his teammate R3 will be a dead duck at home. If interference was not an immediate dead ball, R2 would purposely interfere with F6 so that his teammate could score the winning run.
We all know there are errors in the OBR rule book but the point is one needs to study them to get a full understanding as to why they exist.
Pete Booth
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My fault, I thought I was clear enough but obviously not. I meant that all offensive interference should be treated the same. Whether the batter, batter/runner or a runner causes interference then the play should be immediately killed and outs called.
I do think it kind of strange where there is a delay call on catcher interference because you don't want to penalize the offence and have them restricted to being awarded only one base. But for some reason when it is offensive interference its OK to penalize the defence and kill the play immediately regardless of the possibility that they may have had more then one out on the play.
BTW, in your situation, if my rules were instituted the call would be intentional interference, R2 & BR are both out and R3 returns to third. What's the problem??
Other situations
1) Batter interference on catcher attempting to throw out runner: dead ball, batter out and any runners return to TOP base.
2) BR interferes with pitcher throwing to first on a bunt: dead ball, batter out and any runners return to TOP base.
I guess wherever possible I believe in the KISS philosophy