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					Originally Posted by Crabby_Bob  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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