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Airmail:
(i) If F5 obstructs the runner on the way back to the base as the airmail passes overhead, I'd say Type A.
(ii) If F5 obstructs the runner after he turns and heads for home, with the ball rolling around LF, I'd say Type B.
Partly my ruling is based on the fact that the runner will get home in either scenario. Partly it's based on what F5 is trying to do: in (i) he doesn't know the ball got away, and he's setting up a tag on the runner around 3B. To his mind, he's still playing on the runner: Type A.
In (ii), he knows the ball's out in LF, and he's delaying the runner to set up a play at the plate. That's Type B.
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