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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp
You may be right, I may be wrong, or even vice-versa.
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Speaking ASA, you are most definitely wrong. The protection of a runner between the bases where the runner was obstructed is nearly absolute. Apart from baserunning infractions (already mentioned), the only exception is the intervening play on another runner.
Quoting from ASA RS36:
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When an obstructed runner safely obtains the base they would have been awarded, in the umpire’s judgment, had obstruction not occurred and there is a subsequent play on a different runner, the obstructed runner is no longer protected between the two bases where they were obstructed. That runner may now be put out anywhere on the base paths.
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Notice these things about this statement:
1) The obstructed runner has safely obtained the base they would have been awarded, and
2) The runner is STILL protected between the bases where the OBS occurred.
How do you know #2? Because the statement quoted above gives the exception when the obstructed runner is no longer protected between the two bases - when the runner achieved the base she would have reached AND there has been an intervening play on ANOTHER runner.
You need to learn this principle and stop arguing against it. An obstructed runner cannot be put out between the bases where she was obstructed. Achieving the base she would have achieved had there been no obstruction DOES NOT remove this protection.