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NCAA CWS - Force Play Slide Rule Negates LSU Run


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2B Umpire Steve Mattingly's interference double play call negated an LSU run during the NCAA College World Series' decisive game Tuesday night, as Mattingly ruled LSU baserunner Jake Slaughter—and his teammate, batter Michael Papierski—out on a violation of college's force play slide rule...

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One question, since the BR was out at first, how can there be interference.  Totally agree that the slide was illegal.  No problem with penalizing the offense.  But, similar to batter/umpire interference, if the catcher records the out, we ignore the interference. 

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6 minutes ago, sthomas13100 said:

One question, since the BR was out at first, how can there be interference.  Totally agree that the slide was illegal.  No problem with penalizing the offense.  But, similar to batter/umpire interference, if the catcher records the out, we ignore the interference. 

The rule states "the batter-runner, as well as the interfering runner, shall be declared out and no other runner(s) shall advance"

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26 minutes ago, sthomas13100 said:

One question, since the BR was out at first, how can there be interference.  Totally agree that the slide was illegal.  No problem with penalizing the offense.  But, similar to batter/umpire interference, if the catcher records the out, we ignore the interference. 

It's not a delayed dead ball.  The FPSR violation occurs at the time of the infraction and time is called right away. What happens after that doesn't matter. 

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2 hours ago, sthomas13100 said:

One question, since the BR was out at first, how can there be interference.  Totally agree that the slide was illegal.  No problem with penalizing the offense.  But, similar to batter/umpire interference, if the catcher records the out, we ignore the interference. 

First: that's not the penalty by rule.

More important: your method won't put other runners back. With INT/FPSR, other runners return to their TOI/TOP bases (depending on the rule, code, etc.).

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