Here’s situation I’m not really sure about that happened in a recent game. Popup in foul territory along the third base line, the third base man goes over to catch the ball and runs right into the third base coach. The coach was in the coaching box and as the play occurred seemed to be telling his runner at third to get ready for a possible tag up situation, about that time the third base man runs into him. My question is do you call interference the coach or just let it be? I guess he could have run toward the plate while the ball was in the air, but I have to admit the kid ran right into him and he was in the coach’s box. For the record the ball dropped about 6-8 feet behind where the collision occurred. I feel like this is one of those bizarre questions that would only apply to baseball, I mean in any other sport if a player runs into a coach they’re out of bounds and it makes no difference, except I suppose for a possible injury to the coach a la Joe Paterno last year.
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