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Originally Posted by CecilOne
I'm confused. If the ruling in either case was that "nothing happened", then no ruling, nothing can be changed, the runners stay wherever they reached.
In any rule set, a blocked ball is a dead ball, runners stay at the last base reached. Possibly by accident, "R2 to go back to 3rd and R3 to go back to second" would be the result of a dead ball. But, the runner being played on, if there is one, should be out (R2 in the bat case, R going home in the foot case).
Should we decide that an infraction is or isn't? See below.
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Agree. If this happened and no runners were in action on the bases, I would ruled the ball blocked and runners go to last touched base. You cannot do that if you don't kill the ball.
However, if there is action on the basepaths and there was any possibility the defense could have gotten an out, that is going to be INT. Remember, in this case, there was more than one runner moving. The fact that it is perceived (and that is all it is) to have aided the defense is not a factor in the rule. For as much as we know, it could have bounced off the front of the dugout toward the catcher who may have retired R2, or the F5 who could have had a possible play on R2 @ 2B.