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Originally posted by TexBlue
But, then, how does the offense know what to do? You are handicapping them by not letting them know the situation. Do they just stop running and hope the umpire gives them the correct number of bases. Or, worse, that they even saw the obstruction. By not signalling, you are giving the advantage to the defense, who committed the obstruction in the 1st place. To me, this just puts the offense in a no win situation.
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Interesting argument, but how about the offense just uses good base running judgment just like they would any other time, and then depends on the umpire to award as necessary once the play is over.
Otherwise, you are cheating the offense out of a possible base award because you decided the award too soon.
Sometimes you can judge the base award right away, but not in the general case. You will have a preliminary judgment on the award, but it is only preliminary until the play completes. You should let the play complete and then make any necessary adjustment to the judgment on the base award.