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Old Tue Jul 05, 2005, 09:34am
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Originally posted by Coach12
5. For some reason the 2nd baseman charged back into the infield and blocked (I belive accidently) my runner allowing the short-stop time to come over and make the tag in the middle of the wreck. Neither my runner nor the 2nd baseman fell down.
Please explain. Was there contact? You said neither fell down, but we are left with a rather vague description of being "blocked."

jack's comments to the contrary, there needs to be a better explanation of this. I've had many, many coaches describe the defense as "blocking" their runners when they were doing no such thing.

You infer that F4 caused your runner to delay ("allowing ... time") - pause, stutter-step, go-around, - if so, that would be OBS.

OTOH, merely being in the baseline (or path) without the ball is not (yet) OBS. Impeding the runner without the ball is OBS.
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