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Originally Posted by LIBlueASA
Thank you Mike. I appreciated your response, as all the others who responded to this thread.
It was bothersome to me to think, because the rule states, that we have to "award" her third - when in reality, she merely would have been out by 40 feet instead of 43 feet.
I think you hit it on the head when you said that we have to determine what base she would have reached safely had the obstruction not occurred.
I would, under these circumstances, more than likely call out and state that the obstruction was irrelevant to her making third safely.
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Here, let me screw you up really good. I'm going to reverse myself here after reviewing case plays and clarifications. The OBS would be ignored only on a caught fly ball and the BR.
There is no doubt awarding a runner a base they would not have attained safely had the OBS not occurred seems ludicrous, there really isn't anything to which refer to support the non-call except for "coach, what obstruction? or "coach, she was put out prior to being impeded."
Don't mean to screw you up. If anyone has anything else that I don't or, maybe, couldn't find, please share.