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[QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2882752, member: 199"]
If you watch the video and you see that Betts was not at the wall at the time of the interference, his body crashes into the wall half a second later so while his arm was slightly closer to the wall than his body it had not yet crossed that plane. No question the ball was going to crass the wall for a home run - that has nothing to do with the issue. The issue is simply where the contact with the fan occurred and based on the photo, to me it is clear that the fans arms have crossed the plane of the wall and are in the field of play at contact with both the ball and Betts glove.

As to the question of home run or not, if the fan touched the ball first in the field of play without interferring with Betts, it is a double though it likely would have been ruled a home run before replay and likely not overturned.

I liked the Astros managers comments after the game, he wasn't happy, but he also did everything he could to defuse the 'controversy' and was respectful of the process.
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