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Originally Posted by JefferMC
What I'm seeing on this play is Irish taking a dig on the new interpretation.
F6 obstructed R1. Therefore, as soon as the tag is applied on R2, we klll the play, R1 gets 3B or Home, R2 gets 2B, R3 gets 1B and we keep playing.
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As youngump said, the play isn't over until the obstructed runner is put out (per current rule). I think Mike is going a step further: we have a retired runner drawing a throw. Would this not fit the definition of interference? Ok, maybe not in this case, but you could see where it could.
Here is where Mike and I agree (well, we agree on a lot of things: softball rules-yes; textiles - no
). We already had a rule to cover this, you cannot pass a preceding runner. The second part of obstruction covered you ( . . "and all other runner effected by obstruction.") This interpretation, as does the explicit NFHS/NCAA rule that exempts a runner passing an obstruction from being out, creates the big can of worms.
I have previously mentioned how to fix the rule to prevent the can of worms.