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Old Thu May 31, 2007, 04:11pm
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Originally Posted by Mark Dexter
Question for the baseball umps around here - assuming he did shout "I got it" or something similarly specific to baseball, would there be any grounds for penalizing the runner? It doesn't seem to fall under any of the 7.09 definitions of interference, but is there some other rule (other than 9.01(c) ) that would cover this? Maybe Rule 2's definition of interference?
From what I've read, there's no specific rule against it. It's frowned upon under certain circumstances, but not others. Iow, you can file it under the old "unwritten baseball rule". Maybe.
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