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Originally Posted by MrUmpire
No running lane violation. The runner did not, IMO, affect F3's ability to receive the throw.
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There's
two parts to successfully receiving a throw as a first baseman:
1) actually
catching the ball, and
2) doing so in a manner to be able to keep your foot on the bag.
I think an argument could be made that the
reason F3 wasn't able to keep his foot on the bag was because of the throw. And - the
reason the throw was of poor quality was because of F1's attempt to get the ball around the runner who was in-the-way and out-of-the-lane.
I'm just playing Devil's Advocate. Like I said, I fully realize that this is a very rare call at the MLB level and that it usually requires something egregious.
David Emerling
Memphis, TN