What do we have?

IRISHMAFIA · #1 (**permalink**) Fri Mar 31, 2017, 08:25am

The poster asked the same question on a FP board, got the same answer.

MT 73 · #2 (**permalink**) Fri Mar 31, 2017, 10:08am

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

The poster asked the same question on a FP board, got the same answer.

Yes, just wanted to be sure.
My gut instinct was to call it interference but between a careful search through the USA book and the two forums I am convinced it is obstruction.
Too bad the kids are not taught how to slide.
In the same game I was hit square in the chest with a thrown bat.
Any rule violation on that?

MD Longhorn · #3 (**permalink**) Fri Mar 31, 2017, 10:11am

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Originally Posted by MT 73

Yes, just wanted to be sure.
My gut instinct was to call it interference but between a careful search through the USA book and the two forums I am convinced it is obstruction.
Too bad the kids are not taught how to slide.
In the same game I was hit square in the chest with a thrown bat.
Any rule violation on that?

From your other post it seems like you come from the baseball world... this play would have been obstruction in most of the baseball codes as well.

Why should this player slide though... this player, by all rights, could have rounded the bag and continued to third. There was no tag to avoid ... why slide?

Thrown bat --- many local leagues have rules about that. Most main rulesets do not.