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I wish I had seen the play. I tuned in later and they were talking about it, but they didn't show it.

I seem to remember the announcers wondering why the umpire, who immediately pointed at the play in apparent acknowledgement of the obstruction, didn't call dead ball right away. A little later, however, they talked about the ball not being dead immediately, as if someone had clued them in to the rule. Do I remember correctly?

Apparently the obstruction occurred between 2B and 3B, and I gather than even without the obstruction, the runner had no legitimate shot at home, so he advanced past 3B at his own risk and was put out.

For anyone interested, although baseball and ASA softball do differ in their obstruction rules, in this instance the play would produce the same result: runner protected to 3B and at risk after 3B. If the obstruction did occur between 2B and 3B, the runner would not be protected back to 3B after advancing beyond it.