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Old Sat Mar 07, 2009, 02:23pm
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally Posted by johnnyg08 View Post
Watching Dominican vs. Netherlands today and the B/R hits a ground ball to F5. The throw pulls F3 off of the bag, but B/R misses 1B and is subquently tagged out as F3 jumps and comes down w/ the ball. The umps got this one right, but I thought about an errant throw that would pull F3 toward home plate impeding the path of the B/R w/o the ball. What is the test for OBS on this type of play. B/R does have a duty to avoid contact right? What if during this type of play F3 has to dive and subquently covers 1B and B/R can't touch 1B?

What do you guys think/know? Thanks!
Under FED it very well could be obstruction if F3's actions prevented (all) access to the base by BR.
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