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Originally posted by mick
If R3 bumped the fielder trying to make the play, that sounds like interference.
Obstruction is a violation of the defense.
R3 could have run to the side of F5 and avoided the contact. The runner is allowed that option.
mick [/B]
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He is, but he is not forced to totally avoid a fielder on a THROWN ball. Indeed, in most leagues he cannot maliciously hit the fielder, but most of the time when the fielder is fielding a thrown ball and a runner contacts him it is nothing. (FED 8-4-2g, OBR 7.08b, etc.)
P-Sz