Rules Review - Play on With a Broken Bat in Fair Territory

[Lindsay]

When Royals batter Jorge Soler's bat broke and traveled alongside a ground ball, causing Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager to make a fielding error, umpires correctly ruled no-called the broken bat's apparent interference pursuant to Official Baseball Rule 5.09(a)(8). This quick review considers the...

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[Senor Azul]

Possibly add these to your list? From the 2018 MiLBUM (section 10.7, p. 137):

If a batted or thrown ball strikes a bird or other animal on the playing field, consider the ball alive and in play the same as if it had not touched the bird or animal. If a pitched ball strikes a bird in flight or other animal on the playing field the pitch is nullified and play shall be resumed with the previous count.