2 rare calls, same game

[CecilOne]

Are you killing it for the dead ball interference call in the OP or some other reason?

[jmkupka]

OC: Why are you killing the play & preventing my runner on 3rd from advancing?

BU: Your retired runner was continuing to run, and drew the throw.

Knowledgable DC, overhearing the conversation: That's in black and white in the book, Blue! R1 should be out then!

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by jmkupka

OC: Why are you killing the play & preventing my runner on 3rd from advancing?

BU: Your retired runner was continuing to run, and drew the throw.

Knowledgable DC, overhearing the conversation: That's in black and white in the book, Blue! R1 should be out then!

Show me where it says, coach, in black and white, that R1 should be out at the moment we stopped play?

(Please note that the operative word in the rule that covers a retired runner drawing a throw is "COULD BE", and not IS.)

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

(Please note that the operative word in the rule that covers a retired runner drawing a throw is "COULD BE", and not IS.)

And this is key. The rule says it could be, not that it is INT. It is only INT if the umpire says it is INT

[youngump]

Originally Posted by CecilOne

Are you killing it for the dead ball interference call in the OP or some other reason?

As they both noted, they're killing it because it's a situation not covered in the rules for which the equitable penalty is to make the ball dead. A retired runner drawing a throw that isn't interference is not covered in the rules ...

But then a non-retired runner who runs to second to draw a throw that isn't interference isn't covered in the rules either, but we wouldn't kill it then.