Obstruction?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by tjones1

makes contact with the 1st baseman who is still down.

Did he make contact while he was attempting to advance (including still reading the play) , or was the contact after he had slowed down and was preparing to return to first?

Or, to ask it another way, was he still running hard, or was he hardly running?

The former is obstruction, the latter isn't.

[tjones1]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Did he make contact while he was attempting to advance (including still reading the play) , or was the contact after he had slowed down and was preparing to return to first?

Or, to ask it another way, was he still running hard, or was he hardly running?

The former is obstruction, the latter isn't.

Bob

Hardly running.

It appears I had it right but for the wrong reason.

Thanks everyone.

[DonInKansas]

Is that like "workin' hard or hardly workin?"

[dash_riprock]

Batter hits a bullet that brings down F3, behind the bag, and he stays down. The batter has to be 80 feet from F3, who doesn't move. I guess it's HTBT, but it doesn't sound like OBS to me.