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Obstruction on Catcher
I heard an umpire tell a coach that there is a new interp on obstruction re: plays at the plate.
Runner coming from 3rd to home - catcher is waiting on the throw and has the plate covered - runner slides before F2 receives the throw. F2 has the plate blocked and upon catching the ball tags the runner for an apparent out. Umpire yells "that's obstruction." Coach questions the call and the umpire said something like "its a new interp and that's how I understand it." He said that the catcher cannot block the plate without having the ball. So, is this a new FED interp this year? If the catcher left part (even a very small part) of the plate uncovered I would assume its a legal play. True? |
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2) Yes. |
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And this is the portion that makes this rule argumentative, instead of just saying with out possession of the ball, you can't be there, the umpire can always say there was some access to the base and the coach will for sure disagree. I am not 100% sure , but I think that the NCAA interpertation is, no ball possesion, you can't be there..
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'Imminent' is interpreted by some authority (J/R IIRC) as "ball on the way and over the infield." If the outfielder still has the ball when the runner contacts F2, that's still OBS in OBR.
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For the question at hand, in FED and NCAA the catcher has to have the ball to block the plate entirely. In OBR play has to be imminent. Change was made in FED last year to current ruling. Last edited by DG; Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 09:01pm. |
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Imminent was the OLD FED term before the change as Bob eluded to. OBR 2.0 Quote:
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I agree it's pretty hard in FED to actually call this because it seems to me that nearly every time I see some access for the BR. I had a play the other night where R3 slid into the F2 but there was a whole back of the plate that F2 had left open. I did not call it OBS, but the coach did ask me about it the next time he had a chance. I considered it simply bad baserunning, but some one could have called it OBS just as well and gotten away with it by FED rules. Thanks David |
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Here's an idea: interps are not in the rule book. Also, you have a grammatical error in your sig.
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To be a bit more precise, there is a needless use of an apostrophe, use of a possessive pronoun instead of the appropriate contraction, and a case of incorrect capitalization.
Last edited by MrUmpire; Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 04:30pm. |
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