Runner interferance

Chaz McNulty said:

We had this situation come up the other day.

Runner on 3rd and 2 out.
The batter hits a spinning pop fly down the 3rd base line between home and 3rd.
The 3rd baseman goes to make a play for the ball and runs into the runner on 3rd who was in fair territory and off the bag.
The umpire calls the runner out immediately for the 3rd out of the inning.
The ball lands in fair territory and spins foul (probably would have been caught without the interference).

The next inning the same batter comes up. Was this correct?

Our team waited to see what would happen, and she struck out anyways. We weren't sure if her at bat should have ended in the previous inning.

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Chaz McNulty said:

Even though it ended up being a foul ball?

what if the ball was hit in foul territory with the same scenario?

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MTR said:

It wasn't a foul ball. The ball's status is determined by it's location at the time of the INT. From the OP, that seems it was over fair territory which determines the balls status as fair.

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Strike2 said:

So, if the situation was less than two outs, the batter would have been placed on 1B after the "dead ball" call?

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Comp said:

In USA, if the ball is catchable with normal effort and the runner interferes with the fielder catching the ball, both the runner and the batter are out.

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Strike2 said:

I would like to be sitting close by as a disinterested observer when THAT call gets made. Popcorn at the ready...

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mmeece said:

We had a very similar call in a HS game, however the ball was clearly in foul territory. The runner was called out and our team sent the next batter in the order up the next inning. After she completed her at bat we earned an extra out for batting out of order because the correct batter had not completed her at bat the previous inning.

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