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Booker, please crack open a rulebook.
After getting Al's complete description of this play, I agree there was no OBS on this play.
But please don't mislead our younger and newer umpires by telling them that physical contact or an extreme altering of the runner's path is required for OBS. That's utter BS. ANY alteration, if caused by a fielder without possession of the ball, is OBS.
I had pictured the OP as F2 up the baseline (and IN the baseline/basepath) before the ball was actually there, and the runner reacting to that by curving toward the outside of the baseline, and then swerving away as the ball arrived. Al has clarified that F2 was actually NOT in the baseline (or basepath) when waiting for the ball - so no OBS... but in the sitch I describe here, it WOULD be OBS, even without contact. If the runner ALTERS her path due to a fielder in the basepath without possession of the ball, it's OBS.
[Edited by mcrowder on Jan 26th, 2006 at 03:23 PM]
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