interference w/ a twist

[Rich]

Originally posted by jumpmaster
My call was this...

Signal delayed dead ball. observe throw to first, BR out. Call dead ball, call R2 out for interference. Run that scored counts because the 3rd out was after the run scored.

I think that an arguement could be made that there was no interference b/c F6 was successful in putting out BR.

Peter - why dead ball immediately?

You're confusing this with the penalty for batter's interference, where you do wait to see if the runner is thrown out on the steal attempt.

Kill the ball on the contact. Point laterally and call, "That's interference! TIME!!" In this situation, R2 would be out, R3 back to third, place R1 on first base. It is unlikely that this would be ruled willful and deliberate attempt to break up 2, so there's only one out on the play.