Thread: Interference?
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Old Tue Jul 29, 2014, 07:00pm
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Originally Posted by CT1 View Post
But we just don't know what the result would be until it's touched or passes first or third.
But if the runner hinders the fielder from touching the ball while it's in foul territory, what happens afterward shouldn't matter. The ball should be killed at that moment and ruled foul, since that's what it would have been had the fielder not been hindered.

That's how softball rules it anyway. Should be that way in baseball as well.
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