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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
He didn't "quickly" realize anything. He did signal 4 with his fingers, but he yelled (like he was pissed off about it, in fact) THAT's INTERFERENCE while pointing about 5 times at BR heading toward first ... all of this AFTER waiving the 4 fingers nearly immediately.
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I've repeatedly asked for a rule citation to back that up... you won't provide one.
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So if it's
not batter interference it can't be interference by a batter-runner or runner? OK. I guess it's interference by the center fielder or some other defensive player.
I cannot cite a rule when no interference occurred. My contention is that if one is going to claim there
was interference, it would have to be by a batter-runner or runner (here the B-R). The closest one would be 7-11-f; however, that refers to a play at the plate. Considering that there was no
play being made on R1 in the situation at hand, again, the batter could not have been interfering with anyone.