Has to be one of the more poorly written rules in the game based on how I’ve seen it enforced. How is tucker out for that but grandal was fine here?

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11 comments

  1. Grandal was 100% out on that play. One of the worst missed calls I have seen.

    Tucker was not out for interference, he was out for running out of the baseline.

  2. After the shit talking by Zavala towards Cruz today, Grandal taking a tour of the infield on this play, and AJ Pierzynski being AJ Pierzynski, I’m 100% convinced the first requirement to being a catcher for the White Sox is to be a piece of shit.

  4. Mr. Tucker gently enlightened Mr. Umpire that his foot was on the base when the ball hit him. That would imply that the wrong call was made, seeing how if a catch had been made he would have been called safe. So, Mr. Umpired sent Mr. Tuck away to think about it for a while, and Mr. Tucker told him thank you.

  5. I just don’t understand what the runner is supposed to do. You have to run in fair ground as the bag is in fair territory.

  6. Dumber rule is both runners had to return to 1st and 2nd. They would’ve advanced if it was a normal out at first. Pena’s hit now leads to just 1 RBI instead of 2.

  7. In all honesty it was a rule that was written when the first base bag was half in foul territory. There has since been an adjustment basically saying the runner can be outside the line a couple steps before the base. It’s just an old rule that needs to be re visited to adapt to the modern game. By rule book definition both Tucker and Grandal performed runners lane interference, but there wasn’t much more Tucker could have done (maybe trying to touch base with his left foot but that would screw up his stride)

  8. If its Houston It’s interference if it’s not Houston. It’s not interference.

  9. The difference is who they were trying to get out.

    On the Grandal play, the attempted out was at the plate, so he was entitled to create his own baseline, so a thrown ball can not be interfered with unless an intentional act is taken (reaching out for it)

    Tucker is out because as batter, he is not entitled to a baseline and must run in foul ground until he makes it to 1B. Even though he possibly beat the throw, he was hit by the ball and all of his previous steps were in fair territory, so he is deemed to have interfered since if he was where he was supposed to be, the 1B would have been able to catch the ball cleanly and earlier.

  11. I just read a article on this. MLB’s explanation was that 1. He was not in the 2nd half of the baseline and 2. The throw was from first to home and the rule only expressly talks about throws from home to first (which is dumb).

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