interference penalty

NFHS rule 8 Article 4 section 2 (G)
Any runner is out when he:

G. Intentionally interferes with a throw or thrown ball or he hinders a fielder on his initial attempt to field a batted ball.
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If in the judgement of the umpire, a runner interferes in any way and prevents a double play anywhere two shall be called out. ( the runner who interfered and the other runner involved)


Now to your play.........From the information in the post, I have runner out for interference and batter/runner safe at first. I can not see how a DP could be made on the runner going to third and then back to First to get the batter runner.....

Ump:
A related question about interference...

Runner on 2nd, ball hit to short. Runner takes off, and while in the basepath visually obscures the ball from the shortstop enough that he mishandles it, although the shortstop is 6 or 8 feet away from the runner.

Is that interference?

NO, that would not be interference.

A runner would have had to do something such as stop in front of the fielder or make contact to be called interference. The natural advance on a batted ball is not interference even if his passing by the fielder temporarily obscures the fielders view.

Ump:
Is that in the rule book somewhere?

My son got called for it once, in the worst possible circumstance. League championship game, he was on second. Down by one run, one out.

Grounder to short, he just runs, was at least six feet from the shortstop. Home ump calls interference, now it's two out man on first instead of first/third with one out. We ended up losing.

My son still talks about it, and it was three years ago.

The ump was a guy I've known forever, and I just saw him yesterday. If this is stated in the rule book, I'd like to show it to him so he doesn't do it again.

The rules to look at are 2-21-1, and 8-4-2. As already been stated if the runner is in his normal advance then the only way he is going to called for interference is if there is contact. Now if he is advancing and times it ot be in front of the fielder or pauses then you have interference without contact. Also if he is running normally and the fielder has to step into the baseline to make the play and the runner doesn't yield then that is also an interference. See casebook play 8.4.2v

Same scenario, 1 out and runner on second. Ball hit to SS and runner clearly interferes with SS. SS still manages to field the ball and throws out batter/runner going to 1st. There was no expectation of a double play. Is the ball dead when the interference occurs? If so does the batter get 1st? Who is out? Are both out?

R2 is out, the ball is dead immediately, the BR gets first.

At a pony league (13-14) game the other night with a runner on first the batter hits a groundball to short who tosses the ball to the second basemen who steps on second base to get the runner out. The runner does not slide into second but runs through the bag and also avoids contact. The second basemen gets off a wild throw due to this and the batter is safe at first. The base umpire calls the batter out due to interference because the runner didn't slide into second base thus forcing the bad throw. Is this correct?

Not sliding in itself isn't interference. If by not sliding he indeed caused a bad throw then the BU made the right call.

Sorry, but he must slide or it is an auto DP. He cannot run through, slide through or circle off toward the outfield in a DP situation.

Many umpires miss this call...glad to see these umps did a good job.

What rule are you using to say he has to slide. If he goes in standing, slides or moves out of the way and doesn't interfere then he is good.

Most PONY leagues I know of have adopted a "local league" slide or avoid rule for safety reasons. That is the only must slide rule I can think of for this situation. This call sounds like an "umpires judgment call" if the PONY league has the local slide or avoid rule in affect.