Thread: Do you call OBS everytime?
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Old Mon Apr 25, 2016, 01:14pm
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Originally Posted by Big Slick View Post
A "straddle" in a of itself is not obstruction, neither is "blocking the base without the ball." For obstruction to happen, the runner actually has to be hindered or impeded.
I said "can be", as opposed to the knee down described above. Of course, some impeding is needed.
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