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Originally Posted by ronald
Bretman had stated that "If a runner is hit by a batted ball randomly deflected by one fielder and another fielder has opportunity to make a play, the runner is called out."
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Ron,
Bretman now apologizes because when he re-read what he wrote, he immediately realized that he had goofed up!
I must have been typing faster than I was thinking. I mixed together two different rules and it came out totally wrong. The two rules strung together were actually 8-7-J(4) and 8-8-F (the same two rules you're quoting in your posts, which while kind of similar, address two completely different things).
Rule 8-7-J(4) tells us (as Mike already poined out) that on a batted ball deflected by a fielder, the runner is out if he interfers with any fielder that still has a play on the ball.
8-8-F says that a runner is not out if a batted ball deflects off a fielder and the ball accidentally strikes him.
The first rule is the one I meant to quote, using it as an example of a runner maybe catching an unlucky break on a ball that takes an unexpected bounce.
One rule involves interfering with a fielder, the other with the ball itself. In one the runner's intent is irrelevant, in the other we get to judge intent.
But when you mish-mash the two rules together like I did you wind up with something that is just plain wrong. Sorry about that!