Thread: WS obstruction
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Old Tue Oct 29, 2013, 07:44am
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Originally Posted by EsqUmp View Post
I thought that some of the baseball gurus would have brought up the scramble-unscramble philosophy to obstruction/interference.
Nobody brought it up because it doesn't apply. F5 wasn't attempting to retrieve a loose ball in his vicinity; it was well away from the scrum. So there is no valid argument to excuse the fielder.
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