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Old Mon Jun 20, 2011, 04:51pm
robbie robbie is offline
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Originally Posted by Dakota View Post
Fed requires that the interference be "an obvious attempt to prevent a double play" to get the second out. ASA requires that the interference be "an attempt to prevent a double play" (deleting the word "obvious" but still implying intent to prevent a double play). So, with these two, I would not have two outs in your situation unless you saw something that would lead you to judge there was an attempt to prevent the double play.

U-trip gives more leeway, saying "If, in the judgment of the Umpire, a runner interferes in any way and prevents a double play anywhere, two shall be declared out (the runner who interferes and the runner closest to home)." But, even with this, you'd have to judge (in my view) that this 12U team was in the process of executing a double play... pretty rare at 12U in my experience.
NSA also:
"... in the judgement of the umpire, is an obvious attempt to prevent a double play and occurs before the baserunner is put out..."
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