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Originally Posted by TussAgee11
Remember that you MUST award one base for the obstruction, and then anything he would have gotten on top of that. He CAN be called out, if he is tagged out and the obstruction had no bearing on the play, but only when he has already reached the next base safely after the obstruction.
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Not true for a type B obstruction call. You award the base(s)
if any that will nullify the act of the obstruction. It's entirely up to your judgment whether or not you'll protect him to an advance base. Here's an example where you wouldn't protect the runner on a type B obstruction.
None on...B1 hits a line drive to short centerfield. As the BR rounds first he brushes F3 who is standing in his basepath and in your judgment he loses a step. He continues on to second where he's thrown out by five or six steps.
On this play the obstruction wasn't such as to prevent the runner from obtaining second base safely.
Tim.