Thread: Obstruction???
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Old Mon Apr 15, 2013, 12:06pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by Crabby_Bob View Post
8.5.B.1 An obstructed runner may not be called out between two bases where obstructed. EXCEPTIONS: ... e. Leaving a base before a fly ball was first touched.
Be careful here. That is only an exception to the point that a player cannot be call out between the bases where obstructed. It does not absolve any enforcement, just allows violations to other rules to be applied.
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