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Originally Posted by Rich Ives
You have to have a play to have interference. The catcher wasn't even close. ODB made it easier.
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I hate to interrupt your and MrUmpire's multiple thread love fest, but this is incorrect. If it were correct, you couldn't have something called "interference without a play." I've already posted the J/R reference.
You're also judging hindering/assisting incorrectly. The defense was trying to get to the loose ball to prevent runners from advancing. The ODB hindered that effort by grabbing the ball. What he did next is immaterial because the ball was dead on the INT. So he cannot conceivably have assisted the defense.