If I'm at an MLB game, could I help my home team get a home run this way? (umpire, ball)

[rjburgwin]

Say that I am at an MLB baseball game, and a batter for my home team hits a ball and starts running bases.

Then as the opposing outfielders are looking for the ball to drop so they can throw it home or to a baseman to try and get my batter out, what I do is throw another baseball onto the field to distract them from the real ball that is actually in play.

And now they all go after my baseball, and then even if they get him out, the ruling is reversed when it turns out that they did so with an entirely different baseball that wasn't the one in play.

If all goes according to plan, I'll have helped my team get a home run through the classic Sun Tzu strategy of creating a diversion.

Lol could this work?

[7express]

No. And you'll probably get banned from the ballpark. Not smart.

[P47P47]

I believe that would be covered under rules 3.16 and 9.01(c).


"...the umpire shall impose such penalties as in his opinion will nullify the act of interference."

[Radical_Car]

Family kicked out of game for throwing back SF Giants home run ball - SFGate

The OP has tons of interesting, suspicious creepy threads.

[Labonte18]

Isn't that the classic definition of fan interference and the batter would be called out?