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Originally posted by Dakota
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Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
Obstruction - Once a runner safely obtains the base to which they were protected, if they choose to leave the base during a subsequent play on another runner, they are now in jeopardy even if between the two bases where the original obstruction occurred.
My view: I believe the second half of the rule change should be scratched and not require a sub. play on another runner
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Am I understand you correctly - you favor dropping the protection "between the bases" altogether and just go with protection to the base the runner would have achieved?
If so, why?
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No. I favor that if you are going to drop the obstruction once a runner reaches the base to which they are protected, do it all the time, not just when there is a subsequent play on another runner.
As it stands, a runner could get hung up in a rundown between 1st & 2nd, get back to 1B (which in the scenario is the base you are protecting the runner) and if the ball rolls away a little bit, the runner, knowing they cannot be put out between the bases can take off for 2B again with never being in jeopardy.
Sun Oct 10, 2004, 06:32pm
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