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Originally Posted by Dakota
I agree; you have been calling it wrong all these years. What you have described is definitionally obstruction if the fielder is impeding the runner's return to the base. Having a material effect on any possible play is also not part of the obstruction rule.
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I find it rather unlikely that the second baseman or shortstop impeded a runner's return to first base. 
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