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Tue May 04, 2004, 08:35am
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Would you call interference on this play?
Varsity game, two big school high quality programs, tight game. R1 on 1B, no outs. Ground ball towards 2B. F4 attempts to field ball about 3' to left of 2B, and 2' behind baseline. Error on F4, ball bounces forward a couple feet into base path. F4 starts to reach for ball, but R1 is into slide to 2B so F4 pulls back. Ball hits R1 (or maybe R1 hits ball); by time F4 picks it up there is no play anywhere. We know that a fielder should be protected for at least one step to retrieve a bobbled ball, but this runner was sliding into a base and had nowhere else to go. Would you call INT? WMB 
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Tue May 04, 2004, 08:48am
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As long as the runner makes no intentional interference, I will not require the runner to concede the baseline or the out. F4 booted it all by herself and I will not reward the error. mick
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Tue May 04, 2004, 10:55am
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As with most interference plays, HTBT.
I tend to agree with Mick on this one. F4 had her chance and booted it. Even though it sounds as if the ball was within a "step and a reach", the runner had no time to change direction or avoid the ball. I would leave the ball live and play on. Like Mick said: Don't reward the error!
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Tue May 04, 2004, 11:50am
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Keep in mind that "a step and a reach" involves actually interfering with the fielder, as in making contact. (Yes, I know interference can be verbal or a visual distraction, etc.) It doesn't involve sliding into the ball or even unintentionally kicking the ball in the course of normal baserunning.
No way is the play described interference.
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Wed May 05, 2004, 07:48pm
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"Would you call interference on this play?
No, I would not call interference on your play, as I am sure you did not.
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Wed May 05, 2004, 11:33pm
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"Keep in mind that "a step and a reach" involves actually interfering with the fielder, as in making contact."
Does it? Remember that I said that the fielder "pulled back." She was stepping and reaching for the ball, but flinched, or pulled back when she saw the runner coming at her (sliding). "No, I would not call interference on your play, as I am sure you did not." No, I did not, though I really looked at it for what seemed a very long time before I walked away. I thought about the "one step" concept of protection for the fielder, but the slide seemed to take it away. Supposing that the fielder did not flinch; suppose that she actually attempted to pick up the ball and was hit by the sliding runner. Suppose that contact prevented the defender from fielding the ball and making a play. Does this change your call? WMB
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Thu May 06, 2004, 08:08am
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I don't think you can boot the ball into a sliding runner and expect to be saved by an interference call because you couldn't then bend over and pick up the ball. A runner who is close enough to the base to slide has the right to slide into the base.
In fact, I think there's a case play on this that doesn't even involve a ball that has bounced off a fielder. Something like grounder up the middle that the runner contacts while sliding into 2B. The ruling is no call, as I remember.
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