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Originally posted by WestMichBlue
And every one of you would negate a bases loaded squeeze double scoring two runs because of CO.. .. knocking it down to 1 run award... ie penalizing offense because of CO.
Wade the operative word here is, immediate dead ball. At the exact instant of obstruction the ball is dead. There is no double or home run nothing can happen during dead ball.
WMB
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Ha, tell that to the coach who just watched his hitter hit the ball to the fence despite the best efforts of the catcher to obstruct. You penalized the offense for obstruction. You further create a situation where catchers should argue FOR obstruction in certain instances, pretend like they got hit etc or even intentionally obstruct.
And your case play from ASA was an ATTEMPTED BUNT, not a successful bunt, and I agree with the case play but does not affect this argument or the case at hand.
you can submit that change all you want, but IMO, it will not be accepted to illustrate what you are stating.. because you are incorrect in your interpretation to begin with. The NFHS is consistent here, as evidenced by ALSO the NFHS education program.
Submit this to your big wigs and when clarified for you you can admit you are incorrect in your interpretation of that rule:
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R1@3B, R2@2B, R3@1B, Full Count 2 Outs - Runners leave on the pitch.
Catcher reaches for the ball and the B4 hits the catchers mit as she smashes the ball to the right field fence.
R1 and R2 Score, BR advancing to 2B.
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You are stating you should have called an immediate deadball penalizing the offense.. and thats simply incorrect. So go ahead and submit to the higher ups.
They will tell you this is a DDB and normal CO applied, of that I am sure... I've seen no one else anywhere support penalizing the offense for CO until now.
edited cuz i suck at spelling lol
[Edited by wadeintothem on Feb 16th, 2006 at 09:37 PM]