Interference or Not???

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by CoachJM

DAC,

Thanks.

I assume you did not change the call because, at the time, you and your partner felt it was the correct call?

Is there anything the coach could have done differently that might have resulted in you changing the call?

For example, instead of acting like a jerk (which it sounds like he did), he had:

1. calmly requested time and, after granted, politely asked you if you had seen the contact between the runner & fielder (sounds like you did)

2. asked you if, in your judgement, the fielder was making a legitimate attempt to field the ball at the time of the contact & was the player who had the best play on the ball (sounds like he was)

3. suggested that, as he understood the rules, the runner should be called out for interference because 7.09(l) says he should if he "fails to avoid" the fielder in this situation (which it does).

Would you have done anything differently?

Assuming after all of that, you informed the coach that your initial ruling was going to stand and he then informed you he was protesting your ruling, thanked you for entertaining his appeal, and promptly returned to the dugout. Would you have done anything differently then?

JM

We have a new Windy! WWTB, you are hereby dethroned! Wanna know why we have a new condescention champion? "You seen." You intentionally repeated a poster's bad grammar in your response in another thread, and immediately I knew what you were all about. You thought that would pass by unnoticed, but nope!

In this case, just because F6 contacted the runner, there could be another explanation, such as F6 initiated the contact and was intentionally trying to get an interference call because he knew he couldn't make the play. I'm not going to use pithy parenthesis to illustrate my point, however.

You weren't there, but you feel it is okay to essentially tell dacodee that he blew the call. There are instances of contact which are neither obstruction nor interference, but simply contact.

If you came out on me and started running that smack along with the parenthetical comments, you would get run, and your perfect record would then end.