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No OBS on the play described. However, what if the runner slows down but the ball would have beaten her to the plate anyway? I don't call OBS on that, but I've gotten some arguments.
And what do you call when F2 sets up properly but moves into the baseline at the last instant to reach for a throw that's up the line? I haven't been calling OBS on that, but I suspect I should be.
I guess OBR's obstruction is so ingrained in me that I have a hard time with the concept that a fielder can't always reach or move to catch a thrown ball whose arrival is imminent.
In short, I have a harder time with ASA's OBS rule than with any other. In many years of umpiring OBR, I virtually never had to call OBS. It seems to come up every game in ASA.
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