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Originally Posted by bossman72
When the throw doesn't directly retire the runner, the ball is dead at that point. The batter is out and R3 is returned (since he's not trying to steal home when the INT occurs).
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Someone might quibble with
this part, but I think the intent of the rule is to call out R3 for B's INT only with a play at the plate. That's not what happened here, so I agree with bossman.
Kill it before the rundown, batter out, R3 returns.