Is this obstruction?

[danvers]

I had a similar situation when I was coaching last fall. As soon as the runner would get a lead, the first baseman would block out all except the back couple of inches on the bag. I wanted an obstruction call, but it was Fall Ball, where the league only pays for a PU and puts a volunteer out as a BU. The BU for this game didn't have a clue what to do, and there was no way that the PU could be expected to get a view. His advice was to have my players spike him a few times and he'd quit.

I don't really know if I would have called it obstruction had I been the BU. But it was frustrating, since our fall leagues are supposed to be instructional, and his daddy/coach was teaching him to use his size to intimidate rather than teaching him good, solid baseball.

~~Dan