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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
O.K., I'll out myself as a Yankee-hater (despite not really caring about baseball), but isn't what Thurgreed is saying right? Everyone does this. You try to look innocent and then you argue the call, hoping that, in the back on the ump or ref's mind, they feel like they owe you one.
Arod did not come off as the type of player everyone hated in little league. He came off as the type of player everyone on the other teams hated in little league. I think the real issue is whether he made a bad call by obviously (to everyone except maybe Slave) interfering and thus preventing Jeter from advancing. If he does not interfere, he is out, but Jeter is on 2nd. If he interferes, he is out and Jeter is called back to 1st. This assumes that the rule Shifter thinks he saw exists, because although 7.09 makes the penalty for intereference clear, I quickly glanced at the three thousand or so subsections of the rule and did not see one that obviously covered what Arod did.
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Westlaw is working again!
According to Section 6.1 of the MLB Umpire Manual, "While contact may occur between a fielder and runner during a tag attempt, a runner is not allowed to use his hands or arms to commit an obviously malicious or unsportsmanlike act."
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According to Rule 2.00 from the Official Baseball Rules, "If the umpire declares the batter, batter runner, or a runner out for interference, all other runners shall return to the last base that was in the judgment of the umpire, legally touched at the time of the interference."
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Rule on A-Rod interference,
from the Official Baseball Rules
Rule 2.00.
Interference:
(a) Offensive interference is an act by the team at-bat which interferes with, obstructs, impedes, hinders or confuses any fielder attempting to make a play. If the umpire declares the batter, batter runner, or a runner out for interference, all other runners shall return to the last base that was in the judgment of the umpire, legally touched at the time of the interference, unless otherwise provided by these rules. 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.
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