according to your situation.....
"F4 throws the ball to F6, who is standing between second and third. The throw is a little off, and the catch is made on the outfield side of the baseline between second and third. A split second after the catch is made (F6 now has possession) the runner is running past F6. He is within easy reach of the right hand of the fielder, but the ball is in the glove of the fielder (left hand) and he will have to spin around to actually tag the runner. Instead of spinning around and trying to tag the runner with the glove (which contains the ball), F6 grabs the runner with the right hand, holds him, then tags the runner with the glove."
" ABSOLUTELY!!! " (see next to last sentence...)
per - "J/R: 15 Obstruction
Obstruction can occur during a batted or thrown ball. Contact 7.06
is not necessary. When obstruction occurs, an umpire should call, "that's obstruction", and point at the location of the infraction.
It is obstruction if
A. a fielder who is not privileged impedes or hinders the advance or 2.00
return of a runner during a fair or catchable batted ball or during a thrown ball.
(1) Concerning obstruction and a batted ball:
A fielder's "try to field" a batted ball, ends immediately upon missing or deflecting the ball, and such fielder must, in effect, disappear or risk obstruction.
On a fly ball that has not reached its apex, or on a batted ball rolling along a foul line, a fielder may not be privileged, but is positioning himself for a chance to field the ball. In such exceptional cases, runner-fielder contact is probably incidental, and not obstruction or interference (see examples of "Runner/Fielder Contact: Not interference," p. 73-74).
(2) Concerning obstruction and a thrown ball: 2.00
A fielder's "try to field" a thrown ball is a similar concept to a "try to field" a batted ball (see Chapter 13, Section II, "trying to field," p. 71-72), excepting that a "try to field" a thrown ball includes the actual possession of the thrown ball, and the fielder's actions immediately after a miss or deflection of- the ball. Therefore, a privileged fielder on a thrown ball need not "disappear" after deflecting or missing a thrown ball, and if fielder-runner contact is instantaneous, there is not obstruction,
A catcher or any fielder does have the right to block 7.06b
a runner's touch of a base if he is in the act of fielding
a throw. His block of a base must be a fluid, continuous
result of his effort to glove the ball. Separate, discontinuous movement, whose sole purpose is to block the base is obstruction.
B. a fielder intentionally impedes (e.g., trips, pins, grabs, tackles, etc,) a runner.
However, it is not obstruction if a fielder intentionally misleads or decoys
a runner."
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