Running lane violation or game over?

[rwest]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Then you have interference. We were not there. Until you said where the throw was coming from, I think we were all having trouble seeing how a BR that far into fair territory could interfere with a quality throw. Now that we know where it was coming from, it makes a lot more sense. Assuming number 4 above AND a quality throw (F3 could reasonably be assumed to have made the catch had BR not been where he/she was), you have INT.

I'm having a difficult time seeing this as a quality throw. It seems to me that if the throw was coming from foul territory on third base side and sailed over the right shoulder of the batter runner, then the 1st baseman would have had to go to her left to catch the ball. How far up the 3rd base line was the catcher when she threw the ball? How far out into fair territory was the batter runner? If the ball didn't hit the batter-runner how did she interfere with the fielders ability to catch the ball? Was the fielder's vision obscured? Still not seeing this as interference...yet.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by rwest

I'm having a difficult time seeing this as a quality throw. It seems to me that if the throw was coming from foul territory on third base side and sailed over the right shoulder of the batter runner, then the 1st baseman would have had to go to her left to catch the ball. How far up the 3rd base line was the catcher when she threw the ball? How far out into fair territory was the batter runner? If the ball didn't hit the batter-runner how did she interfere with the fielders ability to catch the ball? Was the fielder's vision obscured? Still not seeing this as interference...yet.

Granted, I wasn't there... but it sounds like the runner was significantly out into fair territory - in a near direct line between the catcher (foul up the 3BL) and F3. Picture the catcher about 6 feet away from home, and the runner halfway up the line about 3 feet from home and this could easily be INT.