Quote:
Originally posted by scyguy
Quote:
Originally posted by bob jenkins
Quote:
Originally posted by scyguy
Do you have to verbalize that the protected runner is safe and at the same time get in a position to make a call on the second runner?
|
How is this any different than making *any* call and getting in position for another? The movement you describe would happen whether or not obstruction was part of the play.
|
The difference is a verbal indication at 3B. My question is not centered around position, but informing runner at third that he is not out. But I thought about this last night. Doesn't the 3B coach need to understand the rules? If he cannot inform his runner to stay on base, and subsuquency advance, then what kind of coach is he? If I indicate obs when contact occurs, then the coach should know the rule. If runner leaves 3B and returns to dugout, we have an out for abandonment.
By the way, the rule for abandonment is 8-4-2p, if that is what you were refering to.
[Edited by scyguy on Mar 11th, 2005 at 08:50 AM]
|
Since this is FED, you could call time and make the award. When the tag is applied, call time and say obstruction, runner is safe and make the safe call.
Then nothing else can happen. Keeps it simple. This is an award in FED, so that would keep the BR at first.
If by chance you did let the play happen without calling time and R3 wanders off, you have a mess, but after the play, I would simply fix it, don't have my book but FED gives the umpire the right to rectify a situation where the umpire puts a player at a disadvantage. Go back put R1 on third via obstruction, and BR would be a 2nd since he was not put out at that base.
Thanks
David
Fri Mar 11, 2005, 10:40am
Hybrid Mode
