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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
Therefore I submit to my learned brethern of this forum, could the UIC have invoked R10-S2-A3g as the reason for putting R1 back on third base?
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He could have, of course, but doing so would be illegitimate.
You see, umpire interference IS covered in the rules. This was not an instance of it. To apply 10-2-3, you'd be insisting that this was umpire interference, contrary to the rule.
10-2-3 is for situations that really, really aren't in the rule book, e.g., pitch hits a bird in flight. You can't call a ball or strike, and the pitch was legal, so what do you do?
Never invoke 10-2-3 (or 9.01c in OBR) simply because you don't like what the other rules count or omit as an infraction.