ASA case

[Roger Greene]

I can give you a Fed cite.

See Rule 9-1 "A runner scores one run each time she legally advances to and touches first, second and third and then home plate before there are three outs to end the inning.

Exceptions: A run is not scored if the runner advances to home plate during action in which the third out is made as follows: .....(clauses a. to f.)

Note: If a fielder illegally obstructs a runner and is responsible for failure of that runner to reach home plate, the umpire has authority to award home base to such runner."

In your sitch, if your judgement is that the runner could have crossed home before the third out if she hadn't been obstructed, you would award her the base and count the run.

The obstruction could have occured anywhere between 1st base and home, not just after 3rd, if you judge that the reason she failed to score before the third out was a result of the obstruction.

Roger Greene,
Member UT