Interference BR - Base on Balls

[UmpJM]

JPaco,

If there were batter interference - and in this case, there was not - it would properly be penalized by calling the batter out and returning the runner to his TOP base.

When the batter interferes, the batter is always ruled out except in two cases:

1. The batter just struck out on the pitch.

2. There are less than 2 outs AND a runner is attempting to advance from 3B on the pitch (via a steal or squeeze play).

In these cases the runner is out for the batter's interference.

JM

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)

JPaco,

If there were batter interference - and in this case, there was not - JM

Everything else you said was right... but how can you know that there was no interference... he still hasn't described the play. I agree that it's kind of likely that there was none... which is why I asked what I did. But we surely don't know that yet.

[UmpJM]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Everything else you said was right... but how can you know that there was no interference... he still hasn't described the play. I agree that it's kind of likely that there was none... which is why I asked what I did. But we surely don't know that yet.

mbcrowder,

I didn't say there was no interference, I said that it wasn't batter interference.

I know that because the batter had become a runner on ball 4 and rule 6.06(c) doesn't apply anymore.

JM

[dash_riprock]

Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)

JPaco,

If there were batter interference - and in this case, there was not - it would properly be penalized by calling the batter out and returning the runner to his TOP base.

When the batter interferes, the batter is always ruled out except in two cases:

1. The batter just struck out on the pitch.

2. There are less than 2 outs AND a runner is attempting to advance from 3B on the pitch (via a steal or squeeze play).

In these cases the runner is out for the batter's interference.

JM

3. The catcher's throw retires a runner (the INT is ignored).