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Originally posted by DownTownTonyBrown
I guess the real question is when do you protect the runner and NOT advance him to the next base?
If the obstructed runner passes his teammate on the base paths. Absent that, in FED Baseball the obstructed runner ALWAYS gets one base beyond his/her position at the time of the infraction.
Why! Because the defense committed a penalty and as with most penalties there needs to be a consequence.
In Football if a defensive linemen, lines up offside and subsequently the defensive back makes a great play and breaks up a pass play is the penalty ignored even though the offsides had no bearing on the play? Answer No. The penalty is enforced.
Now in OBR Type "B" obstruction you don't have to award the advance to base as we saw in this past years World Series. In Type "A" the runner always gets an advance to base.
Pete Booth
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Peter M. Booth
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