Batter Interference

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by David B

I always try to remember, we want to penalize the offense as much as we can on this play, so we get BR out and the runner returning, unless there are other situations which were described such as strike three or the runner being retired.

Not a good thing to remember, because it's wrong. It penalizes the offense more to remove runners from base, but that's the wrong penalty here.

Better thing to try to remember is the actual penalty.