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Old Sat Oct 23, 2004, 11:03pm
Dave Reed Dave Reed is offline
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Originally posted by bob jenkins
Quote:
Originally posted by David Emerling
I think the answer might be this: As soon as the umpire who called the obstruction observes the runner being called out to a base to which he decided to protect him, he should immediately kill the play and award all other runners to whatever base they would have achieved.
That's it.
Yet another example of very explicit language in the OBR which is not accepted by umpires today.

OBR 7.06(b) "If no play is being made on the obstructed runner, the play shall proceed until no further action is possible."

J/R is somewhat ambiguous, saying on the one hand "The ball becomes dead if a fielder posseses the ball and actually tags the runner..." but on the other hand says "an umpire can also impose time at the end of continous action if some runner has not been able to acquire (or return to) the base to which the umpire decided to protect him." They do offer an example which supports David's and Bob's answer.
I suppose the second quoted passage is meant to cover the situation in which the umpire who called obstruction doesn't observe the out call.
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