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Originally posted by AtlUmpSteve
Only if you believe that the runner would have been safe absent the contact might you say the fielder was no longer fielding the batted ball, and that would then be obstruction.
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Based on your further description that runner would have been safe if they had not collided, I agree with "obstruction". I was simply stating the standard is "could the fielder make an out", rather than the baseball standard of step and a reach; then adding to that the other possible rulings if the situation varied.