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Originally Posted by mashie59
My very frank opinion on this is that if the first baseman .... in a lot of cases is obstructing the path of the runner without yet having the ball ... then I tell my player to speed up and barrel right through that player. In a game we had the other night .... the first baseman got the feathers knocked out of him by my player. I explicitly instructed him to run right through this first baseman if he was in his way without the ball. I talked with the umpire between innings and he agreed.
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That being the only reason which I have ever ejected a FP player.
No real
umpire would ever agree.
Some of the other responses were not harsh enough.
Even the instruction without the player obeying would get the coach ejected.
