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Originally Posted by josephrt1
Y'all are saying no obstruction but I am looking at the catcher's left foot. At 1:54 (and there are multiple frames at 1:54) the catcher has extended her foot into the base line which is also the path of the runner. At the early frames @ 1:54 the catcher is out of the base line. Then, while appearing to be tracking the ball in, she picks up her left foot and it comes down on the base line as the runner is sliding in. She has one foot on the baseline before catching the ball and the runner has no choice but to go around.
I have no idea how i would have seen that in real time, but it does look like she planted her foot in the runner's path before the ball arrived. And the runner was pretty close at that point.
Looking for guidance here.
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The defender simply being in the basepath is not in itself obstruction. You have to have 2 criteria met in order to have obstruction. The defender in the path of the runner without possession of the ball AND an actual impediment of the runner. The runner in the video posted never altered her route to the plate because of the catchers location nor did she make contact with the catcher prior to possession of the ball.