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Old Thu Sep 06, 2012, 01:21pm
Manny A Manny A is offline
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Originally Posted by JJ View Post
The pitcher slows down almost to a stop to avoid running into the batter.
If the ball was fair when that happened, the batter-runner definitely interfered with the pitcher.

Where it gets dicey is when the ball was in foul territory when the pitcher stops to avoid the batter-runner, and then the ball ends up fair. Do you rule interference if the batter-runner prevented the fielder from touching a batted ball to make it foul?
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