DistrictDeacon
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Who is the stat nerd? Right or left-handed batters can run inside the baseline to the 45 foot line (see where the lane clearly starts) and by that point you have to move outside the foul line into the three foot lane until your last step or stride to the base. Turner clearly had both feet out of the lane all the way. Benefit goes to defense. Also when the first baseman is looking for that throw he would have been staring right through Turner and couldn't stretch out the way a first baseman normally would. May have made a difference. Who knows? So benefit protects defense there. Sorry you don't like the rule.
Ok. Now I know you are full of shit.
The throw came from the third base line. Turner didn’t block his view at all.