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Originally Posted by Dakota
But it can if the ball crosses the line before the fielder contacts it.
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Not if the play is killed for an unsubstantiated interference ruling.
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How is ignoring the contact supported by the book?
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Except for a stretch of Rule 10, how does it support killing the play?
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Are you relying on the head-of-a-pin argument that the offensive player is still just a batter?
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Nope.
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Dead ball, foul ball, runners (if any) return, batter back in the box. Use Rule 10 to fill in the issues with Rules 1, 7, and 8.
It ain't pretty, but it seems to me to be about the best there is to do with this one.
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My piont, exactly.