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Originally Posted by RPatrino
I think I finally get it. Like UmpJM said, it IS INTERFERENCE. You make the 'that's inteference' call, and you bring R1 back. You don't call B1 out because in your judgement the inteference was not intentional.
Sometimes I'm dense.
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Batter interference need not be intentional. For example: batter swings hard and steps in front of F2, interfering with the throw to 2B. If the defense fails to retire R1 stealing, batter is out for BI (assuming it's not strike 3).
Intentional or not has nothing to do with whether you call the batter out. The difference is between "batter interference" and "backswing interference." Call the batter out for the former but not the latter.