Here's my opinion.
The wording in the rule supplement refers to a batter becoming a batter-runner, and legally dropping the bat to run. That didn't happen here.
There is no reason to absolve a batter from interfering with an action that has no legitimate part of the batting action, even if accidental. She did it, it interfered, she pays the price.
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Steve
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