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Cal Ripken 'Major League' 75 foot open bases, OBR with some exceptions. I don't quite remember the beginning of the play but we get to a close play at the plate, ball beats him and I was about to call the out but notice the catcher trying to quickly grab the ball out off of the ground. A few seconds go by and the runner that just scored starts going back towards the third base dugout. The catcher realizes another runner is trying to get to third and he throws there, and bumps into that runner that just scored. The runner going into third was safe on a close play. I recognized the contact but I guess I kinda froze up on calling that (sort of) obscure interference. Should I have called it? Of course, the only person that probably noticed was myself and no coaches said a peep. 

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1 hour ago, Gfoley4 said:

The catcher realizes another runner is trying to get to third and he throws there, and bumps into that runner that just scored. The runner going into third was safe on a close play.

Did the contact hinder F2? Contact by itself is nothing.

As a general rule, we want this kind of infraction to be big: borderline = no infraction. It doesn't sound as if anyone expected a call in your play, which is some evidence that it wasn't big enough.

Don't pick fly poop out of the pepper.

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49 minutes ago, maven said:

Did the contact hinder F2? Contact by itself is nothing.

As a general rule, we want this kind of infraction to be big: borderline = no infraction. It doesn't sound as if anyone expected a call in your play, which is some evidence that it wasn't big enough.

Don't pick fly poop out of the pepper.

Ahh yeah, I don't think there was any hinderance. It was actually a pretty good throw and the ball beat the runner, but he just slid under the tag. 


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