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Old Tue May 16, 2006, 01:54pm
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Originally Posted by BigUmp56
Here is what the J/R says on your play, Sal.


NOTE: Apart from being outside the 45-foot lane, a Batter-Runner can only interfere on a thrown ball if his action is intentional and hinders a fielder. Similarly, a strike three where a batter becomes a runner is treated as a thrown ball situation, and such Batter-Runner can only interfere subject to the dictates of Section II, Subsection B, of this chapter.

Examples:

1. R1, two outs, A strike three is blocked (not caught) by the catcher, and the batter-runner, starting his advance to first, kicks the ball, or contacts the catcher who is trying to field the ball: neither case is interference, but if either hindrance was an intentional action, disregarding an advance, there is interference.




Tim.

Nice job with all of the rule references. Thanks again Tim!
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Old Tue May 16, 2006, 02:41pm
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Thank you for your explanations! To give a little context, I umpired high school and Legion ball for eight years before giving it up four years ago. I decided to go to law school, and I'm out here in Kansas where there's not as much baseball very close, so I decided to do the local 12 year old youth league games here in town rather than travel.

The one thing I've noticed is how much more often I have to go to the rule book because....weird things happen when the kids are this age.

So, to respond to whomever said this was a "third world" question, yeah--sometimes you get those at this age, I guess. So you can say it's slim and none that this play would happen, but when kids are just learning to play and the plays aren't as crisp as they are at higher levels, you see stuff like this.
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Old Tue May 16, 2006, 02:47pm
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It's not as third world as you might think. If it were that third world I doubt the J/R would have covered nearly the exact same play.



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Old Tue May 16, 2006, 05:24pm
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Side note: FED makes no distinction between backswing INT and regular INT - both are ruled the same. FED case book or rules have the verbage of something like "the batter is responsible for his follow through."
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