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I disagree, anything can happen after the obs that could still effect how far the runner may have gotten. See the OBS see the completion of the play, then rule. Which took longer time.
Ie: the runner rounds first, F3 bumps and a) the runner stumbles slightly and keeps going, and B) the runner falls to the ground, gets up and keeps going. The outfielder making the play on the ball then misses the Cutoff man and the ball ends up at the screen behind home plate. What would have been a normal stand up double now has the runner going to 3rd. Lets say he is now Thrown out by 5 steps. I sit A) i have an out, in Sit b) i have safe on the OBS.
But to determine at the time of OBS, i'm only giving 2nd, would have been incorrect. That would not have been the true result of the play as it ended up occuring.
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