Situation is runner on third (R3), count is 3-0.
Pitch is ball 4, but wild -- gets by catcher.
The batter now entitled to first base begins his jog to first, dropping the bat about a foot outside the left handed batter's box (he is on the visiting team, so he's presumably leaving it for the on-deck batter to grab).
The wild pitch bounces off the backstop and rolls out to in front of lefty batter's box. Catcher, in chasing the ball, trips over the bat and falls. R3 runs home and safely scores because of the trip on the bat.
Does he score? Is it interference on the batter/runner to first? If so, is the batter/runner to first out or is R3 out. Or just call it dead?
Thanks.
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