Obstruction or just baseball?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by rbmartin

Since the runner scored eventually, I'd probably let this play go under any rule set. If it was an NFHS game, and he was eventually tagged out in a scenario decribed in situation 2, I'd have obstruction. As Welpe pointed out, you MUST have the ball if you're in the runners way.

By no means under any rule set do you reward the defense for screwing up the play (except for a malicious contact situation).

For the record, you have obstruction when you have obstruction... you don't wait to see what happens... in a case like THIS play, the OBS is nearly instantaneously followed by a safe call (assuming he scored anyway), but for forms sake (and some TWP I don't want to get into here), call it anyway and then when they score, you don't have to DO anything with it.