tag play at home-catcher in baseline question

[JCurrie]

Originally posted by jicecone
Avoid Contact. If there is no play at home, there is no need to run the catcher over or even have contact. Go around the catcher. If as a result of the runner going around the catcher, the runner is put out at home then enforce the obstruction. (But, you said there is no play at home). If runner does not avoid contact, call him out. Malicious contact will result in an out and ejection before the plate and just an ejection after the plate.

That's correct for NFHS, but for OBR, you would call the obstruction and then eject. There is no provision in OBR (unless modified by the various youth bodies) to call an out without a play or interference.