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I believe that if an obstructed runner is put out, all other runners are put on the last bag they had when the put out occurred, not the closest bag.
Not true, as both Mike and Sam have stated above. Both ASA and NFHS obstruction penalties state that other runners will be placed at bases they would have reached in the umpires judgment had there not been obstruction.
Sam called the half-way thing a Rule, but it is actually a rule-of-thumb statement in the ASA POE on Obstruction. Remember that when an obstructed runner is put out, you immediately kill play with a dead ball call. At that point, if another runner were one step from home, would you send her back to 3B? Conversely, if she were only 10 past 3B when you stopped play, would you send her home?
Your judgment, but basic rule-of-thumb is to send them to the closest base.
WMB
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