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Originally Posted by softball_junky
That is the question that came up. Is the batter still protected if they leave one batter's box and contact the ball in the other batter's box.
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There's a point clearly being missed. They are not protected if they contact the ball in their original batter's box; the foul ball call is only of the ball contacts them.
In your OP, the batter-runner "steps on the ball". That is interference as long as the ball was in fair territory. Neither batter's box has protection in this play.