Persol Pacific League TV's official YouTube channel is now releasing the program "P's UPDATE" to update the common sense of the baseball world. The theme of the June 25th (Wednesday) distribution is "interference". Guests include former NPB umpire member Taro Ryo Sakai, Chiba Lotte Marines alumni Tsuyoshi Nishioka, and Yoshihisa Naruse, and delved into the rules.
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Representative "interference by runner" in interference. The situation in which the batted ball hits runner is widely known, but there are cases where it is judged as interference even if the batted ball or fielder is not touched. That happened on May 20 of this season in the match between Hokkaido Nippon-Ham and Fukuoka Softbank.
hitter, who set up a buster end run with no outs on first base, hit a second baseman grounder. At this time, first base runner passed in front of second baseman and did not touch the ball, but it became difficult to see. As a result, the second base umpire ruled runner out as a "blind interference".
What I am concerned about here is the establishment of a double play. In the video, it appears that fielder continued to play after the interference decision was made, and hitter runner was also out. However, Sakai explained about this decision, "This is a natural play, so it ends with just runner outs, and if this looks like an act of intentionally trying to interference, it will be a double play."
"When a interference occurs, time and ball dead, so we do not allow any play after that," said Sakai. It is up to umpire judges whether runner 's movement hindered defense, but he explained, "There is no doubt that it will be a very difficult judge, and I think the umpire of second base that made an instant decision is amazing."
"P's UPDATE" is available on the official Persol Pacific League TV YouTube channel and Persol Pacific League TV.
Broadcast program "P's UPDATE"
#10 『interference』
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#11 "Infield Fly"
MC: Satoshi Kamiju Guests: Ryo Sakai Sakai, Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Shohei Tateyama
#12 "mound" *Scheduled for release on July 5th
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