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       #Post#: 327619--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Other Sports
   DIR By: davebear
       Date: October 14, 2017, 7:27 pm
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       The rule is very simple.  Bat strikes the catcher your out and
       no one advances.  At least accordig to MLB Network no other
       factors changed it.
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       Re: Other Sports
   DIR By: wmljohn
       Date: October 15, 2017, 7:16 am
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       > This is 6.01(a)(1):
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       > 6.01 Interference, Obstruction, and Catcher Collisions
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       > (a) (7.09) Batter or Runner Interference
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       > It is interference by a batter or a runner when:
       >
       > (1) After a third strike that is not caught by the catcher,
       the batter-runner clearly hinders the catcher in his attempt to
       field the ball. Such batter-runner is out, the ball is dead, and
       all other runners return to the bases they occupied at the time
       of the pitch;
       --- End Quote ---
       The Umpire stated that the passed ball had already happened and
       the catcher missed the ball before the bat struck his helmet.
       After the bat struck his helmet there was no hesitation or delay
       of the catcher turning around, retrieving the ball and making a
       throw to first.  There was clearly no hindering the catcher to
       attempt to field the ball.  Had the catcher not immediately
       fielded the ball and fallen to the ground because the bat hit
       him then the batter would have been called out.  But since the
       graze did not affect the catchers ability to field the ball the
       play stands.
       That is how simple it is.
       #Post#: 327748--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Other Sports
   DIR By: Dave23
       Date: October 15, 2017, 9:44 am
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       Please call Harold Reynolds and help his dumb ass understand...
       #Post#: 327756--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Other Sports
   DIR By: davebear
       Date: October 15, 2017, 12:38 pm
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       That's the wrong rule.
       There's another rule about bat hitting catcher
       #Post#: 327758--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Other Sports
   DIR By: davebear
       Date: October 15, 2017, 12:52 pm
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       You left out the last paragraph of the rule:
       Rules 6.03(a)(3) and (4) Comment (Rule 6.06(c) and (d)
       Comment): If the batter interferes with the catcher, the plate
       umpire shall call “interference.” The batter is out and the ball
       dead. No player may advance on such interference (offensive
       interference) and all runners must return to the last base that
       was, in the judgment of the umpire, legally touched at the time
       of the interference.
       If, however, the catcher makes a play and the runner
       attempting to advance is put out, it is to be assumed there was
       no actual interference and that runner is out—not the batter.
       Any other runners on the base at the time may advance as the
       ruling is that there is no actual interference if a runner is
       retired. In that case play proceeds just as if no violation had
       been called.
       If a batter strikes at a ball and misses and swings so hard
       he carries the bat all the way around and, in the umpire’s
       judgment, unintentionally hits the catcher or the ball in back
       of him on the backswing, it shall be called a strike only (not
       interference). The ball will be dead, however, and no runner
       shall advance on the play.
       #Post#: 327947--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Other Sports
   DIR By: chifaninva
       Date: October 16, 2017, 5:00 am
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       We just played the 2nd game of the NLCS and you guys are still
       talking about one play that happened in the last series.
       The Cubs better get their bats going or we're fukked..
       #Post#: 327948--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Other Sports
   DIR By: Grizzlybear34
       Date: October 16, 2017, 5:18 am
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       You can't keep making the pitchng throw perfect games to win.
       Nobody is hitting
       #Post#: 328042--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Other Sports
   DIR By: wmljohn
       Date: October 17, 2017, 9:52 am
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       --- Quote ---
       > You left out the last paragraph of the rule:
       >
       > Rules 6.03(a)(3) and (4) Comment (Rule 6.06(c) and (d)
       Comment): If the batter interferes with the catcher, the plate
       umpire shall call “interference.” The batter is out and the ball
       dead. No player may advance on such interference (offensive
       interference) and all runners must return to the last base that
       was, in the judgment of the umpire, legally touched at the time
       of the interference.
       >
       > If, however, the catcher makes a play and the runner
       attempting to advance is put out, it is to be assumed there was
       no actual interference and that runner is out—not the batter.
       Any other runners on the base at the time may advance as the
       ruling is that there is no actual interference if a runner is
       retired. In that case play proceeds just as if no violation had
       been called.
       >
       > If a batter strikes at a ball and misses and swings so hard he
       carries the bat all the way around and, in the umpire’s
       judgment, unintentionally hits the catcher or the ball in back
       of him on the backswing, it shall be called a strike only (not
       interference). The ball will be dead, however, and no runner
       shall advance on the play.
       --- End Quote ---
       davebear - Lets get the first thing cleared up.  6.03 is not a
       paragraph of rule 6.01.  6.03 is a totally different rule.  The
       umpire stated that since there was a passed ball before the bat
       hit the helmet that rule 6.03 was not in play.  Even the opening
       sentence of that rule, "If the batter interferes with the
       catcher, the plate umpire shall call “interference.”  That is
       the reason why the umpire went to rule 6.01 because the Batter
       did not interfere with the catchers ability to catch the pitch.
       It was ruled a passed ball or wild pitch.  Now that at bat is
       over so the bat striking the mask falls under 6.01 which is for
       Interference, Obstruction, and Catcher Collisions.
       Jerry Layne's quote about the play, “Backswing interference is a
       play where a guy is stealing or there’s a play being made a
       runner hindering the catch,” Layne said afterward. “It was a
       wild pitch and went past him. That is no longer in that
       particular description, in my judgment. In my judgment, the
       passed ball changed the whole rule around to where, in my
       judgment, it had nothing to do with everything. Therefore, it
       didn’t have any effect on it. In my judgment.”
       […]
       “When the ball gets past him, all right, in my judgment he
       didn’t have any more opportunity after he had a chance to field
       the ball,” Layne said. “There was no further play that could
       have been made on it. The graze of the helmet didn’t have
       anything to do, in my judgment, with anything at all, with that
       particular play. I understand, it’s pretty much my judgment. I
       got together and found everybody was in agreement. That’s what
       we went with.”
       I still don't see why it is so hard to figure out.  There are
       two rules.  One was not in play because it was a passed
       ball/wild pitch before the bat hit the mask.
       #Post#: 328043--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Other Sports
   DIR By: Grizzlybear34
       Date: October 17, 2017, 10:08 am
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       Gotta score some runs tonight...  Can't keep the pitchers in
       these high leverage situations.  Yankees did it last night.  We
       need to wake up the bats
       #Post#: 328044--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Other Sports
   DIR By: wmljohn
       Date: October 17, 2017, 10:17 am
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       If the Cubs lose tonight it is over.  They need to win to have
       any chance at this thing.
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