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Old Mon Mar 12, 2012, 01:11pm
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
So if a kid falls and injures himself while being obstructed, I can nullify that too? Great!

This is not a God rule: there are more basic principles in the rules, including running the bases legally and touching each in order.
True, but I think you're missing the point here that it was the obstruction that caused the missed base. If a runner simply misses a base (not due to the obstruction), then the miss is definitely appealable. However, we are to impose what we need to in order to put things the way they would have been had there been no obstruction. In this case, if there was no obstruction, it is safe to assume there would also not have been a missed base. Yes, this is not a God rule --- but to not waive the missed base would be to fail to put things they way they would have been absent the obstruction.
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