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Throw my name on this pile. Unless you were prepared to protect this runner to 3B (I think it is obvious that should not have been the case), the runner passed the base to which he was protected. This is done at his own risk.
Now, there is one possible exception to this ruling. If F6 literally, LITERALLY blocked the entire base and gave the runner zero access, protection to 3B could be a possibility. How, you say? Because if F6 had blocked just the portion toward 1B, the runner could physically pass the base and then touch it from the other side. If F6 had the entire base blocked, that is also obstruction and the runner cannot be put out between 2nd & 3rd base.
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