Ruling?

[umpjim]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

OBR has the same rules...

That said, there are many instances where MLB interprets OBR differently than anyone else. Collisions at the plate (until recently) for example.

According to my 2011 BRD, Childress says that dekes are legal in all codes except for the fake tag and verbal obstruction in FED. FED has a caseplay that considers the "Miami play" legal.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by umpjim

According to my 2011 BRD, Childress says that dekes are legal in all codes except for the fake tag and verbal obstruction in FED. FED has a caseplay that considers the "Miami play" legal.

Sure...

but getting in the way of the runner without the ball, and making said runner deviate from their path is OBS. Pretty clearly in fact. Not actually sure why there's any disagreement on this one.

[umpjim]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Sure...

but getting in the way of the runner without the ball, and making said runner deviate from their path is OBS. Pretty clearly in fact. Not actually sure why there's any disagreement on this one.

I think a fake pivot move would not normally be in the way of a runner if it was done a la Jeter.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

but getting in the way of the runner without the ball, and making said runner deviate from their path is OBS. Pretty clearly in fact. Not actually sure why there's any disagreement on this one.

That's not how I'm reading it. If he physically obstructs the runner, then sure that's OBS but all I'm seeing in this is an action to make the runner think there's a play being made on him. That's a deke and legal in OBR.

A fake tag is not illegal in pure OBR like it is in FED and probably many of the alphabet soup derivations of OBR. Not even FED outlaws all types of dekes.

[Rich Ives]

R1. Ball popped int CF. Right in R1's line of vision.

Runner doesn't know where the ball is and gets faked out by a deke at 2B.

But on a hit & run the runner HAS to know where the ball is. That's part of his job..

That's on the runner.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Welpe

That's not how I'm reading it. If he physically obstructs the runner, then sure that's OBS but all I'm seeing in this is an action to make the runner think there's a play being made on him. That's a deke and legal in OBR.

That's the way I was reading it.