It happened last night

[sm_bbcoach]

NF rules being used. R1 on 1st. R1 leads off, and then goes on the pitch. As he is running, his helmet comes off (not intentional). Batter hits ball and it strikes the helmet -helmet was sitting on the baseline between 1&2, no fielder in position to make the play. and goes into right field. After lengthly discussion, umpires leave the runners on 1st & 3rd (bases they stopped at when ball was retrieved).

Did they make the correct call?

Is it the same call in LL and OBR?

Thanks

[UmpJM]

sm_bbcoach,

Absent intent by the runner to interfere, that's a live ball, play the bounce. Fed, LL, or OBR.

JM

[NFump]

Aw come on! This runner did this intentionally! You've got to call him out and the batter-runner too! (No, not really. Just using someone else's line of thought on things like this. I'll give you one guess as to who that might be.)

[bossman72]

what if the helmet was up a little further (in front of imaginary fair/foul line) and bounced off the helmet and went foul? do we have a foul ball?

[UmpJM]

Originally Posted by bossman72

what if the helmet was up a little further (in front of imaginary fair/foul line) and bounced off the helmet and went foul? do we have a foul ball?

Yep. No different than hitting the rubber.

JM

[bossman72]

Originally Posted by CoachJM

Yep. No different than hitting the rubber.

JM

Thought so. Thanks for confirming.