Interference

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I think that wyatt is on the right track. How can there be a play on a ground ball in foul teritory. The only play is a dead ball. If F1 was trying to make a play, he was trying to make a dead ball play. I don't think that interference (and the penalty) was meant for this kind of non-play.

J/R explains interference without a play. They use examples of a return toss interference or backswing interence, but they also state that it "may also happen in the absence of either, such as a batted ball". And though the batted ball example of interference without a play that j/r gives is not this sitch, they do not restrict this rule interp to those examples given.

If this sitch happened and you have this train wreck at the ball, you can call interference without a play, kill the ball and impose such penalties as in his opinion will nullify the act of interference. Which would be a dead/foul ball, no out.