[etbaseball]

Papasmurff ...

Actually, the error that occured was that the plate umpire pointed at the batter and declared interference, presumably a knee jerk reaction which, off course, was totally unwarrented with a ball four being declared. My guess is that he created his own pile of sh--, by opening his mouth to begin with. However, as CC explained, one could have a batter-runner who had just received an award of first base on ball four somehow interfer with the catchers throw to second base, it's not impossible; highly unlikely, but not impossible. I think most good umpires would have just ignored the action, with the interpertation that the BR was just proceeding to first base. NO CALL was what should have happened. Now because the ump blew the call he needed to rely on 10-2-3g in order to put the runner, who advanced to third on the errant throw, back on second base.