runner passing preceding runner

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Originally Posted by chapmaja

My opinion on this play is that, given the description of the play, all of the runners are getting home one way or another. The only way, I am not awarding home to the obstructed runner is if she is SO SLOW that a snail would beat her around the bases. Given the way this play is described, I find it very difficult to think that the runner who was obstructed would not have made it home absent the obstruction.

I would award the obstructed runner home and the batter run, who legally made it home, would retain that position at home.

Okay, now look at the rule. If, in your judgment, the BR would have scored on the play and she did score, doesn't that mean she was not affected by the OBS of another runner? If that is true, does that mean that she was not entitled to any protection?