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Originally Posted by kblump
As OP, how can this not be OBS? A player without the ball caused the runner to deviate from her path. The rule does not have a clause that reads" unless there are other ways to get to the base". Now if the player was far enough from the plate that I judged there was no way she caused the runner to deviate, that would be different.
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You're only looking at half of the rule. I grant that you are looking at the half that most people forget ... but you are forgetting the half that everyone else remembers.
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