Watching this game and had a play that I don't understand why they called what they did.
Runner on first with a 3-2 count on the batter. Runner takes off on a steal and the pitch is ball four with the hitter making a check swing. In the process of the play the catcher comes up throwing to second and the throw ends up in shallow RF which allows the runner stealing to end up at third.
Ok here's where it goes crazy. During the replay the batter takes one step towards first just before the throw by the catcher. The batter takes about 4 or 5 steps and then the plate ump starts yelling batter interference while the throw was going into RF and runner going to third. Play finally comes to a stop and everyone starts meeting to talk - umps talk to each other and individually with each coach.
The outcome was runner at first and an out called. Not sure who they called out and who was at first because the TV never said what the details were. The announcers are pretty useless (shocking I know) because they said there was no contact and that has to be there for interference. Plus said you can't have BI on a ball four.
My opinion is that there wasn't a swing and pretty obvious it wasn't. But in my opinion there wasn't BI because the catcher didn't alter his throw and replay shows he still had a window to throw even with the batter taking one step towards first. It was a small window but still there.
So with all this do you guys think you can figure out what the reasoning is for the BI? Or if that was even the call made?
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