Runner and Fielder collide

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by CT1

HUH? Where, pray tell, was the "likely" double play absent the INT? F6 played on the BR at first base, which means R3 didn't try to score initially.

If I'm the offensive coach & you call a DP, you can just go ahead & dump me. Then I'm going to get my money's worth!

Out for the interference, and the out at 1B. Umpire decision.

Have fun in the parking lot.

[CT1]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

Out for the interference, and the out at 1B. Umpire decision.

"Umpire decision" my butt.

R2, R3 with the infield playing in. Ground ball to F6 who checks the runners & throws to F3 for the out on the BR. That's what's likely without the INT.

Where's the other out going to come from?

[BretMan]

Originally Posted by CT1

"Umpire decision" my butt.

R2, R3 with the infield playing in. Ground ball to F6 who checks the runners & throws to F3 for the out on the BR. That's what's likely without the INT.

Where's the other out going to come from?

But the runners- or, at least one of them- didn't check up.

If R2 is close enough to run into the shortstop, then he's close enough to get himself tagged out by the shortstop.

[rbmartin]

If there was a "mild collision" between a runner and a fielder that had posession of the ball, if I were the defensive coach/manager I would contend that a tag took place and the interference on the throw was perpetrated by a retired runner. Guys in blue may not buy it but I'd have to at least try.