Not New, Cause It Is OBS

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Big HS tournament past three days....

Runner on 1B, one out. Runner attempts to steal 2B, throw
brings F6 covering, up the line, contact made...I signal OBS
Ball goes off F6's glove goes about 8 feet behind bad where F8
is backing up the play. Coach hollars for runner to
continue to 3rd. She makes a very poor effort,(unimportant) and
is thrown out little over halfway to 3rd. I call the out. Coach
requests time, enters field, "Blue, your call was OBS." "Yes,
coach there was OBS." "Now you are calling the runner out?" "Again
you are correct coach." "Blue she is protected!" "Coach, only if she
is put out between the two bases she was obstructed." "Coach,
the play was a steal of second, runner was protected only between 1st and
2nd. She is out, beyond my protection."
Coach shaking her head, "I hate this rule." "Coach, that portion of the
rule was not effected by the revision/new obstruction." In the three
days of games from 8:00a.m. until 8:00p.m., there were probably 15
obstruction calls. I had 15 games and 5 obstruction calls, six IP's,
1 BOO, 1 running lane violation and a coach that could not understand how
a batter hit by a pitch that she swung at was called out because it was
3rd strike.