Velho

This has been a great add to my equipment bag

Sometimes you got to be the one to wear the navy black hat

Nope. Not as I understood from the last discussion. Hoping it was miscommunicated / I misunderstood. I've got a note in for a cite and clarification.

How did they do that? Two factors: - LL uses the OBR standard requiring a quality throw - RLI can only be called if the runners lane is chalked

So glad LL has, in practice if not by rule, all but killed RLI during the regular season

Yes. Yes. "[Defense] Coach, there wan't anything interfered with" Depending how I read the room - and at a later moment "[Offense coach] your guys needs to stay out of the way" I for one, would love to have rule support for killing plays like this so, even if the runner tried to advance solely because of the INT, we could kill it.

Yes

Thank you sir @Umpire in Chief. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Bases loaded triple. Throw comes in up the 1B line. F2 gets tangled with scored runner. Are you grabbing an out? Which runner? Retired Runner INT.mp4

Coach assist is covered in 6.01(a) [ (8) specifically ]. 6.01(a) conclude with "PENALTY FOR INTERFERENCE: The runner is out and the ball is dead." The language that follows doesn't have any exceptions for a delayed dead ball. fwiw, NCAA change is in line with existing LL ( 7.09.(h) "When a play is being made on the assisted runner, the runner is out and all runners return to the bases occupied at the time of the interference (dead ball). If no play is being made on the assisted runner, the runner is out and play continues (delayed dead ball)." I can't find any interp (e.g .MLBUM, J/R) that guides OBR being the same.

Correct. They are not using the rulebook vertical zone limits but rather 27% and 53.5% of batter height. If it makes you feel better (worse?) - the horizontal is measured at the midpoint of the plate. So they've almost entirely abandoned the rulebook zone. Regarding measurement by player, it's done during spring training. Why they don't measure it to their stance vs raw height 🤷‍♂️

I see Randy watches softball

Now I see why you do softball @The Man in Blue 🤣