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If a fan has a legitimate question or is ignorant, I will dignify their remarks. Thursday night in a small-town rec league, a batter popped up the ball a couple feet down the first baseline. It fell between the catcher and pitcher, bounced off the catcher's glove (so I signaled fair) then hit the runner in the heel. She made it to first and I heard a fan say "how is that not interference?" After I called time I explained that it hit a defensive player first, and the runner didn't intentionally youch the ball (nevermind that it would be obstruction).
Later, I called an IF on a ball 6" onto the grass at 2nd. 2B was backing up slowly and it went off her glove and into the OF. I heard someone say "it wasn't in the infield!" so I turned around and said "it could have been caught by an infielder, it hit her glove". My hope is that they remember the rule the next time and avoid the noise pollution.
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