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Originally Posted by Delaware Blue
tibear, if you want to apply logic to a few of the baseball rules, you may as well try to teach a pig to sing. It's easier to learn the rules, their interpretation, and application.
That's the way it is now except the BR (while not entirely in the running lane) must interfere with the fielder taking the throw at first base - not the throw itself. That's a not so subtle difference. There must be a throw and it must be a "quality" throw. If the umpire rules the BR did interfere with the fielder taking the throw at first base, it an immediate dead ball, the BR is out, and runners return to their TOP bases.
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You mean to tell me if BR goes outside the running lane to interfere with F1 trying to throw to first it isn't interference??? If F1 picks up the ball, turns to make a throw to first and the runner plows into him from the back 10 feet into fair territory, this isn't interference???
Regardless, my position was that the player guilty of interference should be called out and all runners return to TOP base and if it is "intentional", "deliberate" or "willful" then in this case if there is a runner on base the runner closest to home is also called out.