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Old Mon Jul 06, 2009, 06:53am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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You called it correctly. In FED OBS is all "type B," which permits the defense to make outs against other runners. So you were right to let play continue when the defense played on BR.

R1 is going to be protected into 3B, no matter whether he tries for 3B or returns to 2B. As the play developed, he was thrown out at 3B anyway, and you had to enforce the OBS. You nullified that out, and it doesn't matter that there was intervening play.

To call it otherwise would reward the defense for the OBS and defeat the purpose of allowing play to continue. Had he advanced past 3B and been thrown out returning, that out would have stood, since he had acquired the base to which you were protecting him.

Any out made by the BR on this play would have stood. If the batter had clearly doubled and R1 been held up at 2B, so that the BR had to stop and was thrown out going back to 1B, you might nullify that out. But that's a different play.

Good enforcement.
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