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Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)
Sure looked like intentional interference with a thrown ball to me.
Probably pretty hard to see in "real time".
JM
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I have to disagree.
We must distinguish 2 questions here:
1. Did the runner do something that put himself between the thrown ball and the receiving fielder (e.g. run toward F4, slide with his hands up, etc.), with the result that the thrown ball hit him?
That's not INT.
2. Did the runner intentionally move in order to contact a thrown ball? That would be INT.
I see this case as no different from the one where the runner goes into 2B standing and gets plunked. Sure, he "intentionally" put himself in the way of the throw, and got hit. But that's not INT, and neither was this.