re: It’s interference. With visual evidence and the rule

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Like Omaha is the prime education on this rule. They even have a website for it. LINK

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From your link.

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Finally, not only must the runner be running illegally, but also he must interfere. A runner who runs up the grass to 1st base (illegal), but doesn’t interfere with the fielder receiving the ball at 1st is NOT guilty of Runner’s Lane Interference. As such, umpires will simply allow play to continue.

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This is what yall are missing. The runner did NOT interfere with that catch bc the ball was there first and Jones couldn’t get to it.

If Jones catches it and gets bulldozed and drops the ball, it’s an out.

If Milazzo hits the runner with the ball, it’s an out.

If Milazzo throws the ball to the giant standing on 1B, it’s an out.

Literally only one way that play happens bad for LSU and it happened last night bc the ball wasn’t catchable and therefore no one interfered with the catch.

More from that link

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It is generally accepted that a throw must be catchable in order to invoke this penalty, but umpires will side with the defense in this judgement more often than not if the runner was illegal running up the lane. The NCAA rule adds a clause which does not exist in the MLB rule book (Rule 5.09 (a) (11)) or the NFHS book ( Rule 8 Section 4 Article 1 (g)) which is “hinders or alters the throw of a fielder.” As a result, in NCAA a non-catchable throw could be more easily adjudged as interference by an umpire who believes that the position of the runner prevented or altered the fielder from making a catchable throw.

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