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Originally posted by mcrowder
If someone around has the rulebook, please post the relevant part of the rule.
If memory serves, the runner cannot be put out between the two bases where she's obstructed, but must still run the bases legally.
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You are correct. Obstruction is addressed in the 2005 ASA book - Rule 8-5-B.
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The LBR, to me, is exactly like the other exceptions you mention.
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This is where I disagree with you. The exceptions listed in the ASA book are:
1. Reaching the base they would have reached without the OBS and a play is attempted on another runner.
2. Obstructed runner commits an act of interference.
3. Obstructed runner passes another runner.
My feeling is that if the rule writers wanted to include the LBR as an exception to the OBS rule, it would have been included. Since it is not specifically included, it cannot take precedence over the act of obstruction.
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Change the sitch just a bit, making it just minor obstruction (say BR merely had to run around F4 - but no contact), have BR run a couple more steps toward 2nd, and then stop a 2nd time. Do you have an out now, despite the OBS? And if you do, why here and not in the original sitch 2?
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I would rule on this the same as the previous. Signal and call the OBS, see what happens, kill the play when the runner stops, award appropriate bases.
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I debate all this strictly by the book.
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By the book, I haven't found a reason to rule on it differently than I have stated.
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However, if I was in the sitch, I suspect I'd find some way to protect this runner, as I suspect most of us would (God Rule perhaps). But BY THE BOOK, I believe an out is the correct call.
I await the responses of those smarter than I (yeah, that's most of you!  )
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Personally, I'm waiting for Mike to weigh in on this one and tell us why we are both wrong!