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Originally Posted by wadeintothem
You may not have familiarity with rules and I understand that, but believe me, there are MANY calls made to protect someone on a given play. Interference, OBS & Delayed dead ball, and infield fly rule are a few examples you could begin to learn about and we could help.
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I understand you may not be very experienced, but after 40+ years of baseball and softball, I know the rules (and our job) are to protect the game, not the players.
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Originally Posted by wadeintothem
An umpire determining a runner deliberately blocked a thrown ball would be INT. Thats been stated as well.
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"Deliberate" is the general consensus to avoid a call. *not* a rule. As already determined, it does not have to be intentional. Per the rules.
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Originally Posted by wadeintothem
As presented in the OP, it is dumb move catcher.
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Your injecting your evaluation of a player into the rules. Weather it was DMC or not, does not dismiss INT, especially *IF* the runner saw the throw coming in. Maybe she did ... maybe she didn't. OP indicates the runner turned back before the throw. INT per the rule book?....weeeelllll .... yeah. Will we call it? Heck No. Chalk it up as a bad throw. But it
is an interference. I guess I would have to actually watch the eye of the runner to tell if they were looking at the catcher when the ball was released, only then could I say she knew where the ball was, and she had the opportunity to dive back low to avoid contact with the ball.
But lets look at it backwards. Let say the runner did see the throw coming in. And the runner evaded the throw(and injury), but it caused the runner to go out of path and/or miss the base. Would it be OBS? I think so. The runner is awarded the base.
So..
- if the runner sees the throw coming in and takes a hit, its interference.
- if the runner sees the throw coming in and avoids INT, and as a result misses the base, it OBS.
- if the runner dose not see throw coming in and takes a hit, attempted base awarded.
Delayed dead ball.