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Old Mon May 07, 2007, 10:56am
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Originally Posted by shipwreck
Dakota, the funny thing was, the BU never signalled OBS. After the runner was tagged out, the BU just pointed toward second base and the runner gladly obliged him by taking his place there. If OBS was the call, I wonder if the BU ever gave thought to putting him back on first? There was some conversation between the runner and the shortstop and rightfully so. The runner knew he got away with one. Dave
Let's not take softball mentality over to baseball - I hate it when baseball umpires do that to us.

In baseball, there was no option to send the runner back to 1st. If there was OBS (which I don't think there should have been), he's awarded 2nd.
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