A catcher's interference Replay Review brought Los Angeles pitcher Clayton Kershaw and San Diego batter Jurickson Profar into a shouting match as the two players disputed a bizarre check swing at Petco Park. Article: [ Ссылка ]

As we've previously discussed, catcher's interference can be called during a check swing, and as "an act by a fielder that hinders or prevents a batter from hitting a pitch," doesn't actually require a swing whatsoever, if the umpire rules that the catcher caught the pitch before it had a chance to traverse the hitting zone and before the batter had an opportunity of a free choice to swing or not swing at a pitch.

That said, with replays indicating that Profar's check swing made contact with catcher Austin Barnes' mitt after Barnes had already caught Kershaw's pitch, and more importantly at a point in which it appeared that Profar would have been unable to make contact with the pitch even if Barnes had not been there, was Replay HQ's decision to overturn HP Umpire Tom Hallion's strike three call to catcher's interference proper or should nuance, common sense, and fair play, be afforded the umpires in New York to discretionarily rule on such a catcher's interference play.

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