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Runner Interference ??
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is it interference for blocking fielder's path to base as here:
Runner on first and third with two outs. Batter bunts toward pitcher as F1 and F3 both charge the bunt. Say R3 runs home on bunt and R1 running toward second base intentionally blocks or runs into F4 in base path when F4 is running to cover first base for the throw from pitcher who fielded bunt. Batter is safe at first because F4 can't get to the base, so no third out. Is it runner interference on R1 for blowing up the play so that R3's run counts ?
Distinction here is that F4 isn't 'making a play' on a batted ball but is hindered from covering first.
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I agree that these are the options. To know how to lean, I'd need to know more about what R1 did. If he really "blew up" F4 — elbows up, football-style decleater — I'd get MC. I can see get
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The governing concept for INT is not contact but hindrance. If F4 deliberately hinders R1, then we could get INT. That said, I'd have to be damn sure that he was doing it intentionally. I'd be lo
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