New twist on ball thrown out of play

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offensive personnel kept the ball from entering DBT

In the OP, the offense didn't keep the ball from entering DBT.

I think this is a HTBT. Was the throw wild enough and hard enough that the batter couldn't avoid it?

Thirty years ago, with my team on defense, our F6 threw wild past 1B on a ground ball, and the 1B coach, in the box, reached up and knocked the ball down to keep it from going into the woods. (In those days, the fields weren't as fancy as they are today.) The ump gave the BR 2B since "the ball would have gone out of play." With the deliberate action of the coach, I would have kept the BR at 1B.