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Originally posted by jack2005
Sounds like a league ball game. Reading through the ASA rule book concerning this issue and applying to this situation; I agree with returning the runner to 1st base. Although I would not make this a normal routine. In my opinion coaches will continue to send the runners onto the next base merely because the fielder is standing on the base.
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And why shouldn't they? As long as 1B continues to obstruct without penalty, you are rewarding that obstruction. The defense deserves the appropriate penalty; they lose the right to put the runner out between first and second when 1B stops BR from making a turn.