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Originally Posted by Dakota

Let's say the team on offense has been aggressive base runners the whole game; they have managed to stretch a walk earlier into a "double", executed a delayed steal, and in general are risk-takers on the bases. Catcher throws hard back to F1 after the walk to hold the runners, but the throw is a bit high and the ball is tipped off F1's glove back toward 2B. R1 sees this and takes off. F4 backs up the throw, gloves the ball, and R1 collides with her. Just to be clear, F4 has possession of the ball several steps before the collision and the collision happens between 1B and 2B. F4 goes down, but R1 stays on her feet and advances to 3B, beating the throw from the recovered F4.

Ruling?

Sea....er, SRW, can I answer now?

IN MY JUDGMENT, this is not INT if the runner was simply running to the base and there was no act to collide with or interfere with F4. LBR still has no standing here until R1 touches 2B. Do not take that as a comparison to the part of the rule which requires the BR to touch 1B to activate the rule.