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Originally Posted by dash_riprock
Let me try one last thing: What if you judged that the runner supplied the impetus that caused the ball to enter DBT? Would that change things?
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Possibly, but that would be a very different case. Two possibilities:
1. unintentional deflection by BR: no change in ruling (still the defense's fault for losing control of the ball).
2. intentional deflection by BR: interference, ball's dead, runners return.