Running Lane violation

[rbmartin]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Kind of a troll response - I never put you in that category before.

If the throw drills the runner (assuming it's not plainly obvious to the world that the catcher was TRYING to hit the runner, and not throwing to first base), then he did, in fact, interfere with the fielder's ability to receive the throw.

It's not rocket science. Don't make it harder than it is. (And if you don't believe the 100% agreement in the responses you're getting, ask your clinician or UIC ... OBR, all over, is interpreted this way. FED, all over, is interpreted more broadly)

Don't get me wrong sir. In the last 5 years of calling both OBR and FED games, I have called RLI exactly 1 time. It's not a call I'm itching to make. It is obvious from the responses that OBR guys look at this differently than FED guys and there may even be 100% agreement in each camp on this. However, I cannot see enough difference in the wording of the rules in both rulesets to warrant treating them differently. I was hoping for somthing out of a casebook or interpretation manual to explain the precedence you guys have pointed out other than just saying, "Thats how we all do it".
thanks.