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Old Mon Mar 09, 2009, 11:30pm
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Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM) View Post
walt,

So, in jbarry's original sitch, where the fielder is in a "sitting slide", how would you apply this case play if the fielder did NOT have posession of the ball and the runner...

a. jumped over the fielder's legs?

b. had his legs cut out from under him by the sitting/sliding fielder and ended up going "*** over teakettle" over said fielder's head?

JM
Speaking FED -

I'd have to see the situation you described in (a). If the pitcher was sliding and the runner stepped over an outstretched leg I'd probably have nothing. Now jumping/leaping/diving over the fielder's body is a different story.

In (b), if the fielder initiated contact by sliding into the runner I'd have obstruction.

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