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Old Sat Jun 30, 2007, 08:30am
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Originally Posted by aceholleran
Did anyone catch the Yank-Oriole game (on Thursday, I believe) where Birds' R2 tries to steal 3B and Posada throws the ball into the outfield?

F5 A-Rod put a major fake tag on the runner, his arm movements greatly, IMHO, impeding the sliding R2 from getting up and heading toward home. Ball is in the outfield by this time.

No big whup, R2 recovered and scored easily on error. But no signal whatsoever from U3.

Anyone else glimpse this? I had an obvious type B OBS (and another bush-league ploy) on Rodski.

Ace
It's not obstruction in OBR. In fact, infielders do it fairly often. (Didn't you notice that no one complained?)
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