Obstruction

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Manny A

I guess I wasn't clear. It wasn't the obstruction that prevented her from attaining home. It was the fact that she stopped running because she mistook my signal for a foul ball. If she had continued and not stopped because of my signal, I certainly would have awarded her home if she would have reached it minus the obstruction.

The stopping, the mistaking, etc all happened after the obstruction, right?

If you thought she would have achieved home had she run after seeing your signal, then I'm assuming you would have thought she would have achieved home had she run BEFORE seeing it.

Our duty as umpire is to decide, AT THE MOMENT OF OBS, where the runner would have gotten to. All of the stuff that happened after the OBS is irrelevant (not so in all baseball codes ... but you're not talking baseball). At the moment of OBS, would she have achieved home had the OBS not happened. From your description that she could have even if she'd headed home AFTER going the wrong way for a second, I'd say that's a resounding yes.