Common Sense and Fair Play?

[PeteBooth]

Originally posted by His High Holiness

All;

Now consider this:

In an NCAA game that I had recently, R1 was stealing and the pitcher delivered an INSIDE pitch at the knees. The batter jumped the lower part of his body backward to avoid getting cut off at the knee. The upper part of his body fell forward across the plate and interfered with the catcher. Common sense and fair play caused me to ignore the infraction despite a mild protest by the defense.

That was common sense and fair play. Does anyone have the appropriate rules citations, Evans, etc. to go with it?

Peter

IMO, since we are talking about CSFP, the appropriate call would be "weak interference" meaning B1 is not out and return the runner(s).

I understand that F1 caused B1 to cross into F2's path, however, if F2 is prevented from making a play I don't think it's "Fair" to give the offense a "cheap" base or in the case of a steal of home a "cheap run" either.

Pete Booth