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Originally Posted by Dakota
I'm having trouble understanding your issue with this. By rule, the batter becomes a BR, with the effect of an award of 1B. And you can't back this up from the rule book?
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So I have no problem with that. But that's not the way the rule reads, nor the way I read the post I was taking umbrage with. 8.1.d, state that they become a batter runner when obstructed.
For example, 0-0 count, R1 on 1st stealing 2nd. Catcher impedes the batter than throws into center field. R1 goes to third. At the end of the play, I call obstruction and the OC can choose, R1 at third or R1 at 2nd BR at 1st.
But if you read the rule literally, he became a batter runner when I called the delayed dead ball, not when I made the award. So when the ball flew into CF, the BR could run to 1st. The outcome of this play that has me thinking we should not read this rule literally is R1 at 3rd, R2 at 1st. I don't like that and would rather not call it that way.
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