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Old Thu Mar 06, 2003, 10:22pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally posted by greymule
At higher levels, especially in baseball, the runner will simply bowl the guy over.
You mean ONLY in baseball, don't you? Bowl over a player in softball and you should be done for the night. And now, it seems, in ASA the runner will also be ruled out for doing something so stupid.

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I would like to see a base award for intentional obstruction, like putting a knee down at 1B on a runner returning. It already exists in baseball.

[Edited by greymule on Mar 6th, 2003 at 01:22 PM]
But in some baseball it is permissible to block the bag if the ball is on it's way. Nonetheless, like I've stated before, simply call the obstruction, leave the runner there and call the coach to the field and tell her/him the next time it happens, s/he loses F3. I think that will take care of the problem, it always has for me.

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