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Old Wed Oct 07, 2009, 03:08pm
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Originally Posted by Dakota View Post
Here's the way I would answer your partner's view: the runner was obviously impeded, and it doesn't matter if the runners was impeded in the runner's intent to advance one more step or 60'; the runner was impeded. We don't require the runner to be making an attempt to advance to the next base, only that the runner be legally running the bases.
The runner was going to where F5 was, and likely beyond, so progress was impeded to R1's desired point.
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