This play from the ASA case book relates to whiskers' recent thread "You make the call."

8.8-41

R1 on 3B and R2 on 1B with one out in bottom of seventh. B3 hits the ball to F4. R2 is hit with the ball while off 1B in front of F4 before B3 crosses the plate.

Ruling: The ball is dead when it hits R2 and R2 is out. Place R1 back on 3B and B on 1B. (8-8J; 8-7C)

The implication is that if B3 crossed the plate <i>before</i> the ball hit R2, then the run would score. Before I read this, I would have returned the runners to where they were at the time of the pitch.

But this case book play is more evidence that ASA emphasizes where the runners are at the time that interference occurs.

greymule,

This is a different situtation. Your post on the originial
quoting 5-5-17 from ASA Casebook is the correct ruling...

glen

You'd have to be awfully damn fast to cross home before a batted ball hit a baserunner before any infielders had a chance at it. If it ever did happen I'd probably call the guy out for leaving third too soon and say no damn way you are that fast.

You're right, ghf23, that under normal circumstances, it wouldn't happen. But a ground ball could hit a slow runner from 1B as he approached 2B, after a fast runner from 3B scored, that kind of thing. I admit I'd be surprised to see it occur.