Why Wasn't This Interference? - The Official Forum

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Fri Jul 12, 2013, 02:49pm

Rita C

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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

So you seem to be requiring the fielder to run through a charging runner in order to get an interference call. This one is simple - the runner was where the fielder needed to go to field the ball. As soon as the fielder changed paths to avoid the runner, it was interference.

By your logic, you could never have obstruction either if a runner veered around a fielder. After all, you don't KNOW that he didn't just choose to take a crooked path to the base.

Well put.

Rita

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