Batters Interference

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)

mbyron,

Your assertion is true for FED rules, but under OBR, when there is Offensive Interference, runners return to their TOP base, absent an "intervening play". As you say, it's usually the same base.

JM

JM, this is not correct. The general penalty for offensive interference is to return runners to their TOI base, although some provisions for some kinds of interference specify otherwise.

Originally Posted by Rule 2.00

INTERFERENCE
(a) Offensive interference is an act by the team at bat which interferes with,
obstructs, impedes, hinders or confuses any fielder attempting to make a play.
If the umpire declares the batter, batter-runner, or a runner out for interference,
all other runners shall return to the last base that was in the judgment of the
umpire, legally touched at the time of the interference, unless otherwise
provided by these rules.

[johnnyg08]

Maybe this is for CI...but if the runner is not forced, but is stealing a base, he gets the base he was attempting to steal correct? It wouldn't make sense for BI though since that would obviously encourage BI. If he's forced to another base and we're enforcing the CI by giving the B/R 1B...but a runner who's stealing gets at least the base he was attempting...correct?