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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
To call OBS, the runner's progress toward the base needs to be impeded.
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Agreed.
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To me - if the runner is moving with the intent of contacting a fielder and drawing an OBS call - then he's not making progress toward a base, he's making progress toward a fielder.
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Maybe. It depends on where the fielder is relative to the runner's basepath. It does not depend on what the runner is trying to do.
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How do you differentiate between the runner in the OP, and someone simply running directly at a fielder with the intent of getting a free base?
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See mbyron's post #16. That sums it up for me.