Batter Interference
 

6.06 A batter is out for illegal action when—

(c) He interferes with the catcher’s fielding or throwing by stepping out of the batter’s box or making any other movement that hinders the catcher’s play at home base.

The comments to 6.06(c) do not mention the situation when the batter interferes after strike 3. In that case do we also get an out on an advancing runner? In the case of a double steal do we get the out on the lead runner and return the trail runner? Same thing even if the attempted putout is on the trail runner?

Where is this all cited?

Don't have my books to cite exact rules however, if the batters interfers after he is put out and there is a runner stealing that the catcher is going to play on, then if the catcher fails to throw out the runner, call the runner out. If you know the catcher could have played on someone but can't determine who, then call the runner closest to home. All other runners return to base at TOP.

FED rule 8-4-2g: "...If a retired runner interferes, and in the judgment of the umpire, another runner could have been put out, the umpier shall declare that runner out. If the umpire is uncertain who could have been played on, the runner closest to home shall be called out."

This rule applies because the batter became a runner then instant he was charged with strike three, even if the ball is caught. Rule 8-1-1b(1).

7.09(e)

After strike three, the batter is no longer the batter... he's either a retired runner or in the case of D3K a batter-runner. Apply the applicable rules depending on which.

+1

All codes.

R1, R2, double steal.

The pitch is an inside curve right at the knees of the batter. He leaps straight back to avoid getting hit by the pitch, and ends up just outside the batter's box right in F2's line of fire to 3B. If he hadn't backed up, he may or may not have been hit. It would have been close, but he seemed to underestimate the break. He didn't make any other unusual movement. F2's throw failed to retire the runner.

Batter interference?

Not BI.