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I was calling a 14U rec fast pitch game (ASA rules) on Monday night. One team's pitcher was the slow, arcing kind of rec "fast" pitch pitcher. The catcher had a disturbing tendancy to lunge forward to try to catch the pitch.
I discussed this with the coach, who continually reminded the catcher to not do this (to little avail). (I did call one catcher obstruction when the bat contacted her mit.)
However, on one pitch that was way inside, the batter was trying to back out of the way of the pitch & the catcher reached over & in front of the batter & caught the pitch. She actually prevented the batter from getting hit by the pitch.
I just called it ball 3. Even though the batter was clearly not attempting to swing, I am wondering if I should have called catcher obstruction.
(It made no difference in the game; the batter received a base on balls on the next pitch anyway.)
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