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Originally posted by tzme415
How sure do you feel you need to be that the runner was impeded? If I see the runner veer to one side of the base because the fielder is on the other side even if it would benefit the runner to do so? For example the F6 sets up on the outfield side of third base to receive a throw from left field, the runner is heading towards the outfield side of the base. The ball slips out of the outfielder's hand while making the throw, but F6 stays on the outside of the bag. The runner sees F6 and the third base coach is waving her home so she veers to the infield side of third. She stumbles on the base, which slows her up enough so that she is tagged out at the plate. Is this obstruction? Did the runner veer because she saw F6 on the outside of the base or because she was waved to go home? Did F6 being there cause her to stumble? Normally going to the inside of the base would be advantageous, but in this case it may have caused her timing to be off and she stumbled.
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Your scenario is a bit far-fetched, don't you think? As you said, the runner should be going for the inside of the bag. However, if it is, what I judge, a change in course to hit the bag properly, there is not going to be a call of obstruction. If a runner trips over a bag, that is most likely what it is, a runner tripping over a bag.