OBS

[PeteBooth]

Originally posted by greymule


I have not seen this play, but it crossed my mind recently and I was wondering how I should call it.

OBR. Nobody on. Abel gets a hit to right-center, where F9 cuts the ball off on one hop and fires it in toward F6 at 2B. Though Abel has no apparent chance at 2B, he takes his usual aggressive turn around 1B and trips over F3's foot.

In OBR this is TYPE "B" OBS. So as Clint Eastwood said in Dirty Harry, You have to ask yourself one question

Absent the OBS what base IF ANY do you protect the runner to.

Therefore, you could have 2 different outcomes in the aforementioned play dependent upon the judgement of the umpire (which is the reason I prefer the FED ruling)

Outcome Number 1 - The umpire protected R1 to first base only. If that's the case then the out at second base stands.

Outcome Number 2 - The umpire judged that absent the OBS R1 would have reached second, then the out call is cancelled and R1 is awarded second base.

In FED, the runner is going to get at least second base.

Pete Booth