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Originally Posted by bd41flpk
Just wanted to confirm the statement: '...2. When an obstructed runner is tagged out between the two bases where the obstruction occurred, the ball is immediately dead. He is awarded the base he would have reached had he not been obstructed....'
Is the ball truly dead immediately upon the 'tag'? What happens if there's other activity going on with the other runners ahead of this one?
Other than that this all makes sense...thanks
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It's almost true. The only time the ball is not dead is if the runner will actually be out on the tag. Just think how crazy the field would get if you had a runner tagged for the third "out" but the runner was going to be safe because of obstruction so everybody stops running and pretty soon somebody else is out and you have a mess. Killing the play makes life simple. Then you just figure out where everybody else was going to get absent the obstruction and killing the play and move on from there.