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I was PU, BU was a relatively new ump. He has been umpiring 4-5 years but due to work schedule has called very few games over that time span...anyways.
Batter gets hit to gap in right center. F3 is standing on white portion of bag as BR rounds the bag going to the colored portion on her way to 2B. I see this and call obstruction. The throw into 2B was high. If the throw had been good it would have been a very close play. To continue the play, F6 jumps for the ball and lands on the BR. They were tangled up for a few seconds. The ball rolls to the 3rd base foul line about 20' up the line past 3B where F9 is backing up and picks up ball. Base coach looks at me and request time. He says he wants to talk to my partner and mentioned to me "you know what I want to talk about". Yah coach I do. After talking to my partner, my partner comes to see me about the obstruction at 2B with the fielder on top of the runner. I ask if he thought the BR would have made it to 3B had there not been obstruction. He said no. I told then there is your explaination to the coach. Just for the heck of it I asked him if he saw the obstruction at 1B and he answered no.
My question around this is a what if....
What if the runner would have been thrown out at 2B and my partner called her out. Exactly how would you have handled this? I would have immediately called dead ball and protected the runner to second. Just wanted details on how to handle this call. Would you talk to the partner first and ask if he saw the obstruction?
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Ken
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