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I have a couple of questions regarding this type of play.
1) Why do we need to allow a "neighborhood" type double play under any rulesets that have slide rules ?? The middle infielders have plenty of options to avoid incoming baserunners. I allow some leeway under OBR, if a fielder is protecting himself.
2) If this fielder missed the base by as much as claimed here, how do you sell your call to the head coach, who is probably standing in the 3rd base coaching box 100 feet away with a clear view of the play ?? Especially when you're probably 10 to 15 feet away from it. Why be there if you're not going to call something so obvious to everyone in the stadium ??
In my opinion, you handled this play correctly. I probably would have called "Safe, no bag" and signaled multiple times like you did.
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I'm due to make a great call. After all, I've been officiating a long time !!!
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