Interference. Place the runners.

[chalen]

R2 and R3, no outs. R2 interferes with a fielder who is in the act of fielding a batted ball. The ball is dead, the runner is out, and the batter-runner is awarded first base. If R3 scored before the interference, does the run score or is he returned to his time-of-pitch base?

a) OBR?

b) Little League?

[noumpere]

TOP, since BR had not reached first AND there had been no intervening play.  So R3 returns to third.

 

It's in the "penalty" section right after Interference in the OBR book; I can't c-n-p right now.

[flyingron]

53 minutes ago, noumpere said:

TOP, since BR had not reached first AND there had been no intervening play.  So R3 returns to third.

 

It's in the "penalty" section right after Interference in the OBR book; I can't c-n-p right now.

Hear ya go:

In the event the batter-runner has not reached first base, all runners shall return to the base last occupied at the time of the pitch; provided, however, if during an intervening play at the plate with less than two outs a runner scores, and then the batterrunner is called out for interference outside the three-foot lane, the runner is safe and the run shall count.