Texas wins challenge that Texas A&M runner interfered with throw on double play

Texas softball coach Mike White came out a big winner after challenging a play in the fourth inning of Sunday’s Regional contest against Texas A&M. After Rylen Wiggins was thrown out at second following a ground ball to third base from Allie Enright, White argued that Wiggins obstructed the throw to first preventing a double play.

The replay shows Wiggins stand up right as Longhorns second baseman Viviana Martinez makes the throw to first. Enright was originally ruled safe during live action.

Upon review of the play, however, officials decided that White was right and Enright was ruled out to end the inning. That resulted in a huge swing in momentum as the Aggies then allowed four runs at the top of the fifth inning and Texas increased its lead to 10-2.

According to the NCAA rule book, “if a batter interferes with a fielder attempting to field a batted ball, the ball is dead, the batter-runner is out and runners return to the last base touched at the time of the pitch. If obvious attempt to break up a double play, runner closest to home is also called out.”

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