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Originally posted by Yeggman
ASA 10U FP
In the 19th game of FP in my young career, the following happened (which was reminiscent of question #99 on ASA exam):
Nobody on, nobody out. F3 playing in for potential bunt. B1 hits sharp grounder (fair) off F3 which goes into foul territory. F3 retrieves ball and beats B1 to orange safety base by about 3 steps (she can use orange base because of rule 8-2-M-3, I believe), but F3 remains standing on orange base.
B1 slows and runs into F3 standing on orange base. B1's coach wanted me to rule obstruction. I said no way.
Was this correct?
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Coach: Come on, Blue! Don't you know your rules, my runner was obstructed.
Umpire: You know what, Coach, you are absolutely right. I'm going to award that player what he would have gotten had the obstruction not occured.
Coach: Damn straight! About time we got an umpire who knows the rules.
Umpire: Thanks, Coach. You can send your player to the bench now because that is where she would have ended up had the obstruction not occured.