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Old Tue Apr 21, 2009, 10:42am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally Posted by johnnyg08 View Post
I compare this ruling to the "throw your glove at the ball rule" where the umpire can award 4 bases if the ball is judged to have been a homerun had the glove not hit the ball...how is that not allowing the umpire to judge where the ball would've landed?

That's correct if the spectator had reached out over the playing field and made contact with the ball -- and the officials had, thus, judged this to be interference.

But, apparently, the contact was over the stands, thus was not interference, thus it was a home-run and not interference.

I think that's mbyron's point.

to-may-to, to-mah-to.