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Old Thu Apr 10, 2008, 02:08am
BretMan BretMan is offline
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As wiser minds than my own have put it, in softball we do not "penailze" obstruction (ie: award additional bases).

Rather, we "negate the effects of" obstruction- by awarding exactly the base that we judge the runner would have achieved minus the obstruction.
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