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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
Stop and think about this.
If the catcher is that close to the plate with a runner approaching and there are no outs, why would the catcher be throwing the ball to 1B instead of protecting the plate?
And why wouldn't the runner be going full out which means there is no way contact is going to be avoided in the first two scenarios...and before anyone brings up "sliding" it is going to be irrelevant to an INT call without the C attempting to retire the runner.
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Fair points... so are you saying A and B are not INT? (And if so ... how to defend that call if it's protested?)
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