Thread: Out or Safe?
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Old Wed May 23, 2012, 11:45am
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Originally Posted by youngump View Post
Safe. No rule reference because it's not in the book. Allow me to posit a similar play and ask for your rule reference on it. Runner comes into second with a stand up double. Short stop takes the relay throw, runs up to the runner, bear hugs the runner and gently deposits her three feet off the base while tagging her.
It's not obstruction and there's no rule against it but the defense can't push a runner off a base to get an out.
Kind of like Hrbek in the 1991 Series?
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