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Originally posted by Tap
In USSSA slow pitch, technically the award is the next base, so if the runner is obstructed scrambling back to 3B the runner actually gets home: "The obstructed runner shall be awarded at least one base beyond the base he had last legally touched before the obstruction."
I'm not saying that it makes sense or that the offense would argue if the runner was put back on 3rd, but technically the award would be home.
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Not in USSSA Fast Pitch! 9:14 reads a lot like NFHS or ASA, and it says:
When a runner is obstructed while advancing or returning to a base, by a fielder who neither has the ball or is about to field a batted ball, the umpire shall award the obstructed runnner, and each other affected by the obstruction, the bases they would have reached, in the umpire's judgement, had there been no obstruction.
As you can tell, the wording is very similar to the other organizations that I have mentioned. So, as you can see by this, in USSSA Fastpitch, the situation that Greymule posed would be treated just like it would in ASA or Fed. In other words, if the runner returned to 1B without making any attempt toward 2B, he/she would only get 1B.
Scott