You Make The Call

Man on 3rd, one out. Coach calls for a squeeze play. Batter squares to bunt, runner on 3rd starts home on the pitchers first move. The catcher seeing this comes in front of the batter and catches the ball before it crosses homeplate and tags the runner coming home. What's the call.....I'll tell you what happend after I see your answers.

 

Catcher interference

 

You would think so but no that was not the call that was made....Keep guessing....This one is a beauty

 

From the HS case book on page 70....

Situation 8.3.1B: Runner is on third base. Runner breaks from third in an attempted suicide squeeze play. As batter attempts to bunt, catcher steps across home plate, catches the ball and tags the runner.
RULING: Catcher obstruction. The umpire shall award the batter first base and the runner home. Run scores.

 

I will guess that the ump got the call half right...so to speak....he called obstruction and awarded the batter first base but declared the play dead and sent the runner back to 3B. This would obviously be a blown call, but a scenario I could imagine happening.

 

Incorrect....but at least it was a better guess than the one the ump made....Keep trying....Couple more and I give you the call that was made.

 

This ought to be good...

 

You Make the Call....

Perhaps he thought this was more of a "pitch-in" rather than a "pitch-out." For every "pitch-out, there must be an equal or greater "pitch-in." Baseball physics 101. Hey, I'm sure I've seen worse. I'm guessing Ball 1 with the runner being called out at the plate.
On the other hand, I would never want to disagree with Stretchy.

 

Taking this from he Braves' Umpire Advisory School:

Batter obstruction: Batter out and runner out....inning over. let's go home!!!!

 

I didn't see if the catcher advanced and caught the ball in front of the plate...I assume he did as was stated. I did see an unsuccessful attempt to bunt the ball which carried the batter forward as he reached for a high pitch and subsequently there was quite a bit of contact between the catcher and the batter as the catcher wheeled to the left and attempted to to tag the oncoming runner.....just some additional painting of the picture.