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Originally Posted by harmbu
We played a team the other night (FED rules). R3 took his lead from the bag. Each time a pitch was caught by F2, the runner went back to the bag with his hands high over his head. My question is: What would have happened had F2 attempted to pick him off and:
a. The ball hit him in the hands or arms
b. The ball hit him in the back of the body
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(a) if the umpire judged that the runner was not intentionally reaching for the thrown ball, play on, no interference. If the runner is not looking back at the throw, it's hard to see how this could be INT.
(b) this is almost never INT -- you'd have to rule that he threw himself in the path of the thrown ball intentionally.