While I am firmly in the camp of protecting a runner on BOTH sides of the bag when a fielder is standing on the base and there's no play (in other words ... F4 standing on 2nd as a runner is running, that runner has been obstructed between 1st and 2nd AND has been obstructed between 2nd and 3rd)...
in this play, the obstruction is clearly in front of first base - therefore the protection is only between home and first.
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