OK...decided to look it up. NSA: "Interference is the act of an offensive player or team member, who impedes or confuses a defensive player while attempting to execute a play. If judged so by the umpire, vocal interference may be called."
I wonder what the hell the base coaches were doing this whole time. I wonder if they did anything that was sportsmanlike/ethical. I'm gathering they didn't.
Not sure what you are implying here but it sounds like no one got this one right. The batter runs to an occupied 1st base with less than two outs on strike 2?; baserunner at 1B runs to 2B because she thought she was being forced to 2B by the batter/baserunner?, the defense throws to 2B allowing the potential winning run to easily score from 3B; the umpires are clueless on how to correctly rule the situation? Sounds like no one knows what is going on in that game. Maybe it's a result of 10u and inexperienced umpires, coaches, and players.
I'm not implying anything. Rather, I'm expressly stating a concern. It seems to me that the person complaining about a run not scoring is a base coach who, by rule, is to give guidance and direction to his offensive players. Moreover, is responsible for the more welfare and sportsmanship of the players. Anyone coach, regardless of an express rule as to what to do here, who allows all of this to happen isn't doing his job. It shows a lack of sportsmanship, a lack of integrity, or at best, a complete lack of rules knowledge and game situation awareness. Umpires only can enforce a penalty after the fact here. It was up to the coaches to prevent it from happening in the first place. Sorry for the rude awakening, but the initial blame goes to the coaches for failing in their responsibilities.
The defense makes a play at 2B, so if I'm the 3rd base coach with a runner on third in a tie game, I am sending her home if I think she can make it safely.
Currently, we are trying to get the girls to run to 1B on any strike 3, dropped or not. We have lost far too many opportunities by standing around while the C collects the ball and tags out our batter still standing in the batter's box. The 10yo batter was simply confused about the count.