interference

[Guest bruce Holbrook]

Batter hits the ball to second baseman, R1 interfers with second baseman who throws to first on time to get batter  is the batter  runner out

 

[maven]

The ball is dead immediately, and R1 is out for INT. No play on the BR is possible (no matter where the fielder threw the dead ball).

Whether the BR is also out will vary by code.

FED: the BR is out if the INT prevented a "possible" double play. As we teach this, we'd call the BR out only if it was a "double play ball" hit fairly hard and more or less right to a fielder.

PRO: the BR is out only if, in the umpire's judgment, R1 "willfully and deliberately" interfered in order to prevent a double play.

If we don't rule the BR out for R1's INT, and that out wasn't the 3rd out of the inning, we'd award the BR 1B.

[yawetag]

The runner would be out for the interference. If the umpire feels the interference prevented a double play, then batter-runner would also be out; if not, the batter-runner is awarded 1B.

[Mussgrass]

Also, the ball is dead at the moment of the interference so the throw technically never happened.