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The question asked was not whether it was obstruction, the BU ruled obstruction. The question was whether runner was awarded 2B or 3B. In this case it would be difficult to award 3B, on the assumption that the obstruction prevented the runner from reaching 3B. He was sliding into 2B, and even if the ball was still in the RF's hand it is not reasonable to expect the runner to make it to 3B. In FED a fake tag is obstruction, but even if F1 was faking a tag to get him to slide, it is still a stretch to award 3B. By the way, I am assuming F1 was really F6 because SS was mentioned, and I can't figure out why F1 would be covering 2B on a ball hit to RF.
[Edited by DG on May 1st, 2005 at 11:03 PM]
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