If you are asking whether this is verbal obstruction, maybe, but you can only award 2nd if
- you really judge the BR would have reached it otherwise, and
- whether the yell actually caused the BR to stop, especially as he stayed at 1st, apparently having seen it land fair
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Officiating takes more than OJT.
It's not our jobs to invent rulings to fit our personal idea of what should and should not be.
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