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Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
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There are umpires who want to call obstruction with a runner nearly 60' from the alleged obstruction. The BR may not even be to 1B yet, but you are going to want to award him bases?
If you start killing plays on a whim, and yes some obstruction calls are just that, than you will end up with nothing, but chaos. If you kill a play, you are depriving the offense (the offended team) the possibility of advancing farther than they would have with or without the obstruction, and denying the defense the ability to put out an active runner which was not affected by a possible obstruction.
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I'm only saying kill the play when the defense is about to make a play on an obstructed runner. Because in the end you have no play on that obstructed runner.
I don't think that the defense should be awarded the ability to make a play on an obstructed runner then make a play on another runner.
And I just don't think that it is too hard to see where the other runners are once the play is killed. I mean one wouldn't have to keep watching the obstructed runner because one already knows where that runner is going to be.
And as far as the BR going to first. He/she is always awarded first on any obstruction from Home to First.
The key statement here is "A play about to be made on".
With only the BR running what would be the purpose of allowing the play to continue if a play is about to be made on him/her? What, the possiblilty that the fielder will miss the ball and the BR can continue to run?