GIMNEPIWO wrote:MTR wrote:bigsig wrote:In most rule sets there is a statement which goes something like "The batters box is NOT a sanctuary" which means the batter must move out of the way of a play at the plate. An exaggerated example would be a runner trying to steal home and sliding through the Batters legs. Even if the batter didn't move that would clearly be interference.
That would be for a batter. This is not a batter, it is a batter-runner. The batter's box is irrelevant to this play. And again, where is the act of interference?
I'm still not getting your interpretation ... It's been said many times that INT shouldn't be called on a Batter, BR or Runner for merely doing what their supposed to be doing ... As in they just can't go poof and disappear ... In the OP this BR stayed in the batters box instead of running on a fair ball and was in the backstops way of making a play on R1 ... Is your interpretation that a BR has no responsibility to run on a fair batted ball ? Yes, the batters box has no bearing on this, but she was not advancing to first base.
Can you site a rule that requires any BR or R to run? Don't confuse this with what the BR/R needs to do to avoid being put out.
If there was a ground ball with runners on 1st & 2nd and as soon as F6 fielded the ball she jumped toward 2B thinking of turning a deuce. However, R1 just stopped dead trying to avoid an INT call, but in her eagerness, F6 forgot about R1 and turned into her and fell to the ground. Is that also interference because R1 didn’t run, but just stood there?
In the OP, the ball was down the 1B line. F2's range of vision from the outset to receiving the ball was where a BR would have run if she was going to run. If F2 didn’t see the BR going to 1B, just where did F2 think she was?
If the BR did head toward 1B and realized she was going to be out so she just stops a few steps up the line to force F3 to come make a tag. Instead, F3 tries to throw the ball to F2 and hits the still-as-a-statue BR, should that also be INT because the BR refused to run into the tag?
At no point is the offense required to facilitate the defense’s execution of an out. Nor should the offence be held accountable for the defense’s mistakes or misjudgments.