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Originally Posted by silkseller
We had this topic come up last night at our preseason rules clinic. Fast pitch girls NFHS rules, please.
Play: There is a rundown between bases, and the runner contacts the fielder as she is running back to let's say first base (I'll include other bases later). Umpire calls obstruction. Here's where the dissagreement began. Some said only award back to base in which she was returning to; in this case First Base. Others said, to award her second base. The rule is on page 65 of the new Softball Rule book, but it is not totally clear.
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Let me clear it up for you.
The "award" to a player obstructed is to negate the obstruction. If a runner was going back to the base when the obstruction occurred, how could that impede them from advancing to the base which at the time is behind them and in the opposite direction of that in which the runner is attempting to progress?
The result of an obstruction is not a punitive award. IOW, if the impediment caused the runner from not reaching the base to which they were heading, that should probably be the base awarded.