Batter Interference

[goody14]

I am guessing that the home plate umpire is actually calling interference for the batter's back foot leaving the box and hindering the catcher's throwing. Follow through interference is not an out in OBR, right? 

[Mad Mike]

This is not follow-through interference. This is batter's interference, which is an out.

An example of follow-through interference would be with the batter swinging at a pitch, missing, and striking the catcher with his bat on the follow-through of the swing. In that event, if a runner was attempting to swing the runner would be returned to the base occupied at TOP.

Here is an example of follow-through interference, R1 stealing, Batter swings and misses, catcher's throw does not retire runner. They send R1 back to first.

http://m.mlb.com/video/v20964483/?query=interference

 

[BuckeyeMike]

Goody, you're correct.  Not an out in OBR.......so PU must have chosen to enforce the more severe of the 2 infractions that occurred here. 

Mike, I agree that it's not follow-through INT, but ONLY b/c the PU chose the other infraction/penalty to enforce.   This IS textbook follow-through INT. 

[WIUMP]

In FED, both batter interference and follow-through interference are outs. Correct?

[maven]

In FED, both batter interference and follow-through interference are outs. Correct?

​FT INT is just one kind of batter INT (a kind with a name). You've got "step across" INT, and "step out" INT, and "failure to vacate space" INT, and all your other kinds of batter INT, and they're all penalized the same.

FED's "backswing INT" isn't really either one.