Thread: Obstruction
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Old Tue May 14, 2013, 12:23pm
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Originally Posted by CT1 View Post
Well ... we can't know for sure what would have happened. But, in baseball, we're instructed to use our experience, common sense and judgment to award bases.
Umpires are told exactly the same in softball.

The only difference is in the OBR training to include post-obstruction evidence to make that call.
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