ONLY in high school baseball

And I chose, on this day, to cover a rivalry game in softball that was mercy-ruled:

http://www.recordersports.com/articles/memorable-4357-granite-thad.html

But for those just wanting the money shot:

 

Wow. An obscure rule for sure.

Last night, I covered one of our three teams in the first round of the playoffs. Their three pitchers had 10 walks, hit two batters and the defense added six errors behind them. This team, in 29 games, has 133 walks and 97 errors. Needless to say, they lost 10-0.

 

BW, didn't that happen in the bigs in the last few decades?

 

Yes. On May 28, 2005.

Dodgers reliever Duaner Sanchez threw his glove at a ground ball hit by D'backs center fielder Luis Terrero. Automatic triple awarded.

Here's the box:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI200505280.shtml

Here's the scoring notation:

LA Times story:

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/may/29/sports/sp-dodgers29

 

I thought the interference rule came into play only when the ball was hit by the glove.

 

I'm pretty sure that's correct.

By the way, a piece of particularly awful writing from that LAT story:

 

Yeah, I should have been more clear. Sanchez DID hit the ball with the glove.

 

ah ha.

 

So ... not only in HS baseball?

 

So an outfielder can throw his glove at a home run ball and the slugger has to stop at third? Neato.

 

I think it's a home run if the umpire determines it would have gone over the fence. Not sure that's ever happened, though that would definitely be better than Rick Camp's home run [/crossthread]

 

He'll remember the next time.