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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
6 feet from first? Protected between 1st and 2nd. That's 2 steps. You don't think the fielder's existence right at that spot altered the path the runner would have taken between 1st and 2nd?
Unless there was a play on her and she was clearly intending to run straight through first base, you've got to protect her between 1st and 2nd.
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Six feet (two steps)
prior to 1B seems to be between HP and 1B not between 1B and 2B. The BR could be protected to 2B but not under the "between the bases" part of OBS. The umpire would have to judge the BR had a chance to make 2B sans the OBS prior to 1B would s/he not?