Asking for Help

Ump153 · #1 (**permalink**) Tue Apr 14, 2009, 10:37am

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Originally Posted by mbyron

Any "access" will do.

Not according to the online FED clinic I saw. It specifically stated that the runner must have access to a portion of the side of the base facing him. A fielder who entirely blocks the leading edge and insists that runner merely had to reach around him to find another portion of the bag is not provding "access."

johnnyg08 · #2 (**permalink**) Tue Apr 14, 2009, 11:09am

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Originally Posted by Ump153

Not according to the online FED clinic I saw. It specifically stated that the runner must have access to a portion of the side of the base facing him. A fielder who entirely blocks the leading edge and insists that runner merely had to reach around him to find another portion of the bag is not provding "access."

I'm curious as to where you got your information. The interpretation says some access..it doesn't specify what part of the base, just access. I would ask your FED instructor to reexplain that...I can't imagine that FED would specify which part of the base they'd have to allow access...obviously they can't say that we're allowing access to the back side of the base or the top or bottom of the base...but I think you know what I'm getting at.

mbyron · #3 (**permalink**) Tue Apr 14, 2009, 11:43am

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Originally Posted by Ump153

Not according to the online FED clinic I saw. It specifically stated that the runner must have access to a portion of the side of the base facing him. A fielder who entirely blocks the leading edge and insists that runner merely had to reach around him to find another portion of the bag is not provding "access."

I agree, and that's what I've been taught as well. I was rejecting the idea that "access" means "where the runner wants to go."