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Taken to its logical extremes, yes. The ball would have to pass in front of the runner or the runner would have to go behind the fielder.
In practice, not so extreme. Hot shots will beat the runner to the position anyway. Slow rollers, the runner would have to yield to the fielder. If there is a sufficient gap between the runner passing through the spot then the ball, not a problem or a call.
I know, next question up is "What's a sufficient gap?". Umpires judgement, that's why you get the big bucks, right ;-).
And before youget to ragging all over the answer, the original question was along the lines of " Where the h*** did he get that rule?". Just a possibility of where it came from. Or he could have just made it up.
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