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Old Wed Apr 15, 2009, 07:21am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
DG --

That is clearly NOT the FED interp. There's a specific case play or interp where Rx tries to go for one part of the base, Fx blocks that part but leaves the opposite part open, then catches the ball and makes the tag. The ruling is that this is legal -- the ruling is that Fx must provide "some" access to the base, even if it's not the part that the runner wants.
That's my understanding of the interp as well. "Reasonable access" does not appear anywhere in the rules, cases, interps, etc.
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