"Accidental Interference"

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by harmbu

It was the plate umpire that I asked. The way I understand it the BU has the safe/out call and then turns his attention toward the impending play at first base while the plate umpire watches for the contact. Am I correct in this?

Either umpire can call FPSR violations. As BU, I ended a game last week on a FPSR violation, where R1 slid to the side of and past the base to make contact with F6 covering.

You asked the PU one relevant question: was there contact beyond the base. He answered that question, and it's umpire judgment all the way. That's not the only relevant question. But just because you saw contact, I would not conclude that there must have been an FPSR violation.

Forgot to add: since intent is not a requirement of interference, assessing whether the INT was "accidental" is irrelevant. There's no such term.

[bob jenkins]

My guess is that PU meant "incidental contact" but got tongue tied.

Still, you asked the correct question.

Originally Posted by justanotherblue

The only way I know of not having the FPSR enforced in Fed is, if the fielder is on the first base side of the bag and the runner performs a legal slide.

IF the (otherwise legal) contact is on top of / over the base, it's also legal.

In FED, the contact would be illegal if it was beyond the base; this type of contact would be legal in NCAA.