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Originally Posted by GarthB
Seems to me that:
1. the coach was doing his job.
2. he did not have an oportunity to avoid the ball.
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He did have the opportunity but he chose to turn his back
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Originally Posted by GarthB
Nothing similar at all to the OP. Why kill the ball?
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Come on Garth
The inference you made regarding Evans was that the 1BC and ODB have the job to avoid contact with the ball.
It's either their job or it's not. In my sitch the 1BC turns his back to a live ball and you're excusing it. In the OP I presented the possibility that ODB was doing something else besides watching the ball(same as 1BC) and you have interference.
These are very similar. In both cases a person in their legal spot in LBT unknowingly get hit by a live ball headed toward DBT.
Tell me what's different?
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BTW, I'm not suggesting interference on the OP is the wrong call. I'm saying it's a judgement call and an umpire is within the rules and intent of the rules to have a no call. Which is, based on my visualizing the OP, what I would do.