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CI, advance all runners forced to advance and the BR to 1st.
R1 as well as R2 and R3 are forced to advance, due to B becoming BR.
Due to the CI, R1 was "not" able to reach his advance base, he was tagged out by F4. The MC and or INT comes after; 1. CI and 2. the tag out.
If Fed say's you gotta have an out on MC then okay. Hokie, but I could live with it.. But I gotta ask: what if 2 outs, no body on, B hit's an HR, but MC's F3 while rounding 1st? Is he now out, with no run scoring, or would a sub be allowed to run the bases for him?
I'm wondering if the FED term "CO" is muddying the waters on this?
FED clearly say's, "MC trumps OBS"?
In the OP had R1 been obstructed, I'd agree 100% on MC trumping him and earning an out.
But, OBS was not "really" the call, it was CI/CO, see where I'm going with this?
This is not OBS, it is Catchers Interference, only called Catchers Obstruction. Still a different beast. OBS I protect the OBSed runner, not necessarily every runner.
Not the case in CI, I'm now obligated to perhaps "protect all"...
I say the CI trumps all, as CI caused the ensuing play. The play didn't meet the rules definition of when to; disregard, wave off, or ignore, the CI.
Since I now have to enforce the CI; I must disregard the "play" and start from the beginning. Award all runners including the BR their next base.
Without further case examples to sway me: in an OBR game: I would advance all runnners (except the ejected one) who although ejected, is still deserving of 2nd.
I would allow the sub, bases juiced, a run scored.
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