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Softball Junky - PLEASE go read your rulebook or discuss this with a superior. You're way off.
You said, "I am not going to award an extra base on a simple OBS call. I can't foretell the future so I don't know if she would have made the extra base or not. In an extreme case where the fielder knocks down the runner or "Sits" on them. You may award a base or bases you feel the runner could have made"
Why are you only going to award the proper base in there is an extreme case. The rulebook tells you to determine immediately, at the moment of obstruction, where you think the runner would have gotten had there been no obstruction.
If you're not giving this base (and protecting to this base), you are giving an advantage to the defense, who would be encouraged to obstruct all over the place if you were on the field.
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