Obstruction/Interference/Nothing???Discuss

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Tue May 05, 2009, 04:22pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

Let me try one last thing: What if you judged that the runner supplied the impetus that caused the ball to enter DBT? Would that change things?

Possibly, but that would be a very different case. Two possibilities:

1. unintentional deflection by BR: no change in ruling (still the defense's fault for losing control of the ball).
2. intentional deflection by BR: interference, ball's dead, runners return.

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