NFHS incidental contact?

[roadking]

Originally Posted by marvin

NFHS 2-36



If the fielder, in your judgment, is making the initial play on a batted ball you would have interference. If the fielder was making the initial play it does not matter what the runner could have anticipated.

One of the exceptions that allows an obstructed runner to still be out is:



So if you had judged obstruction on the play you described the batter is still out because of the caught fly ball.

It all boils down to whether, in the judgment of the umpire, the player that the batter/runner collided with was making an initial play on the batted ball. There does not have to be intent for interference to occur.

I was "what if in" the play if the ball had happened to drop in fair territory. My point of contention is F3 "intially" made a move to cover 1 base rather making the intial play on the ball, F3 move to catch the ball was a second thought.