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Originally posted by WestMichBlue
R1 on 1B, B2 bunts, F1 fields bunt and throws out B2 at 1B. R1 continues on to 3B. F5 retreats towards 3B, getting in R1's way. R1 stay on her feet and collides with F5 (not maliciously). Both go down and throw from F3 sails past into foul territory.
R1 gets up, tags 3B and starts for home, but F7 fields the ball and makes a good throw home. R1 retreats safely to 3B.
OK, you have obstruction; and you believe that R1 could have made it to home had she not been obstructed. Send her home?
OTOH, if R1 had not knocked F5 down (if she had deviated or slid), F5 would have caught the ball and you would have been protecting R1 to 3B.
So where are you putting R1? And why?
WMB
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F5 getting knocked down is really irrelavent to this play.
If, as you say, I truly believe that R1 could have made it home, then yes, I would probably award her that base. However, in the play that you present, there is no mention that R1 was knocked down, so the most I can assume that she lost was a couple of steps. Therefore, if she wasn't sliding at home to try and beat the throw, but was able to safely retreat back to third base, that makes me think that she wasn't within a couple of steps of home when the throw arrived. So...if she wasn't within that couple of steps, and she retreated back to 3rd, then 3rd is what she gets.