Rule quiz

[Haid D' Salaami]

What are you saying? The ball is delayed-dead at the end of action, not immediately dead. Thus, the CI exists. The play results in enforcing the balk, the penalty does not.

Rich is right. This was a fun play at Umpire school and PBUC eval course.

[Haid D' Salaami]

Ok scenario pitched at the KC clinic last weekend:

0 out, R2, R1. Better hits an infield fly to F3. R1, in retreating to 1st, interferes with the first baseman trying to make the play.

Make the call in:

a) ball is not caught, and rolls foul in front of the bag.

b) ball is not caught and stays fair. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

same play that happend in LA 2 yrs ago, with Scott on the plate.

[Haid D' Salaami]

a) Interference, R1 is out, Batter returns to bat. (also, if the ball is caught in foul territory, the batter still returns to bat)
b) Interference, R1 is out and Batter is out. (OBR, Definition of Terms, Infield fly, last paragraph in comments)

hold on ..In "A" the ball is caught but your going to return the batter to hit again? please explain? 

[jpperez14]

hold on ..In "A" the ball is caught but your going to return the batter to hit again? please explain? 

the interference takes precedence over the caught foul ball.  So says the OBR. 

i would think if the ball is caught by the fielder originally interfered with, you would have nothing but an out on the batter, since the interference didnt prevent the play from being made. I also velieve had F2 caught the ball instead of F3, why would we protect F3? But i answered what the MLB would rule.