Thread: Foot on base
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Old Sun May 11, 2008, 08:33am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally Posted by RichMSN
This is not the way it's being interpreted. The defense doesn't get to completely decide which "access" the runner gets. If the natural slide is to the back of the base and the runner heads there, I'm calling obstruction.
There's some FED wording somewhere to the effect that "even if the defense blocks that part of the base the runner want to go to, it's not obstruction if the defense allows access to another part of the base."

Again, though, I think the FED did NOT do a very good job with this particular change.
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