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FPSR still applies after the score?
This brings up another question that hs coaches ask all of the time. R2 rounding 3rd and steaming toward home for the score. Throw from anywhere and F2 is 3-4' up 3rd baseline to take the throw. Now, F2 has every opportunity to be a step or two in or out of fair territory but he chooses to block the baseline. R2 has nowhere to go. If he goes around F2 on the foul side he could miss the plate. If he goes around on the fair side he could interfere with the throw or miss the plate. If he slides he'll never make it to the plate. I understand that in Fed it is the runners responsiblity to avoid contact but if there is a collision there, what do we have. I hate to reward F2 for blocking the plate on a play that he may or may not make a clean catch and tag when R2 trucks him because R2 had nowhere to go. One could make a case for obstruction. If R2 intended to plow F2 then that's a different story but if it's just a collision do we still have an out and an ejection in FED?
Thoughts?
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