batter's interference

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by rwest

It is in there, but would not apply in this case if the throw was to third, which i failed to include in my last post. I'm thinking of a play where the catcher is trying to retire the runner stealing 3rd not a throw to the pitcher covering home.

Sorry - misunderstood your sitch - you had a runner on third so I assume the play was at home. On a throw to third, MOST of the time the throw is going to be almost immediately after the pitch, still within the timeframe where the batter is not yet negligent for not knowing she has to move.

But I can envision an extremely delayed steal, (perhaps an inattentive runner that doesn't immediately hear her coach) or potentially even a wild pitch with a runner on first trying to make third base, where the brushed back batter has had time to get her wits about her, see there might be a play, and just standing there in the way being construed as willful negligence, and thus intent.