[BigUmp56]

Originally posted by PWL

You mean headupass plays. I would hope when people go to the bathroom they would take a newspaper and keep up on current affairs like everyone else. Who makes up this crap (play on words)?

Let's talk about something more likely to happen....getting struck by lightning....winning the lottery.

[Edited by PWL on Jan 5th, 2006 at 10:00 PM]

Please tell us, enlightened one, what you feel we should talk about.

This isn't all that as impossible as you suggest. R1 is off on the pitch. His head is down and he's haulin' @$$ toward second. He hears the contact of the bat and the ball and looks up and see's it high in the air over the mound. He stops in his tracks, turns around and attempts to go back to first. F3 is now looking up at the ball and steps into his path back to first obstructing him causing him to fall. By the time he gets back to his feet BR is now on first base. F1 throws the ball to F6 and F6 miss-plays the ball letting it go into the outfield. F8 subsequently throws out R1 at second as he's just coming into the bag. Now you have to consider post-obstruction evidence and decide had there been no obstruction would R1 have reached second base safely. Your call, but it would be hard to sell a safe call in this situation if you didn't at least note the delayed dead ball obstruction. The out call is easy as this play panned out, but had something other than F1 simply making a good throw to force the runner and get the out, the safe call is going to be tough if you didn't call it.

I don't buy the argument that he cannot return toward a base he's been forced from. I agree that he and the BR cannot occupy that base, but the basepath belongs to him both ways until he's been put out.

Tim.