3rd base coach interference

[DonnieB8]

Batter hits a high pop up in foul territory towards the 3rd base dugout.

3rd base coach yells foul ball to the batter who didn’t see where it was going. 
3rd baseman made an attempt but did not catch the ball.

is this interference on the coach for yelling foul ball?

[grayhawk]

1 hour ago, DonnieB8 said:

Batter hits a high pop up in foul territory towards the 3rd base dugout.

3rd base coach yells foul ball to the batter who didn’t see where it was going. 
3rd baseman made an attempt but did not catch the ball.

is this interference on the coach for yelling foul ball?

Unless he yelled it right in F5's ear, this is nothing.

[MadMax]

19 hours ago, DonnieB8 said:

3rd base coach yells foul ball to the batter

Umpires ~never~ call “foul ball”; thus, this ain’t as if an umpire called it (foul)… which he wouldn’t, anyway, until the batted ball was determined to be foul. 

What if this had been the 1BC, yelling / shouting “It’s a foul ball!” or “Hang on, it’ll be foul” to his R1? Are we imposing an INT call for that? How ‘bout if it turns out to be actually caught? How ‘bout if it was bobbled and dropped? Are we imposing an INT call? 

@grayhawk is right… unless we have direct physical, visual, or verbal impedance, just offhandedly saying “foul ball” by a coach to his offense (Batters and/or runners) is not necessarily INT. 

[beerguy55]

On 8/28/2026 at 6:14 PM, DonnieB8 said:

is this interference on the coach for yelling foul ball?

So, my question would be, who thinks it is, and why would they think that?

On what planet is that anything that would cause the fielder to not be able to catch the ball?  It's not like a foul ball can't be caught...though it does remind me of a recent facebook debate where a bunch of...people...think that the second an umpire says "foul" that the ball is immediately dead (the context being the ball was still in the air, the umpire made an obvious mistake to yell "foul ball", and then a fielder caught the ball).

[DonnieB8]

On 8/28/2026 at 9:56 PM, grayhawk said:

Unless he yelled it right in F5's ear, this is nothing.

Base umpire called interference and ruled the batter out. 
later he used the example of Arod calling for the ball in the fielders ear when he was running to 3rd.

 

[beerguy55]

12 hours ago, DonnieB8 said:

Base umpire called interference and ruled the batter out. 
later he used the example of Arod calling for the ball in the fielders ear when he was running to 3rd.

 

The umpire's likely an idiot.  Or you're leaving out important information.

ARod screamed in the fielder's ear as he ran by - there is nothing in the OP describing a similar action.  Simply saying/calling "foul ball" isn't interference...mainly because "foul ball", even if improperly called by an umpire, would/should never prevent a fielder from continuing to make the catch.

Edit: ARod also screamed something like "I got it" - so, beyond the fact that the proximate scream itself which would startle/distract the fielder (which should be enough), the words would also reasonably cause a fielder to back off from the catch..."foul ball" would not, so we're left with whether or not the coach's actions startled/distracted the fielder.