Block or no block

[Coach12]

"Reply to Tom"

Tom wrote;

Please explain. Was there contact? You said neither fell down, but we are left with a rather vague description of being "blocked."

jack's comments to the contrary, there needs to be a better explanation of this. I've had many, many coaches describe the defense as "blocking" their runners when they were doing no such thing.

You infer that F4 caused your runner to delay ("allowing ... time") - pause, stutter-step, go-around, - if so, that would be OBS.

OTOH, merely being in the baseline (or path) without the ball is not (yet) OBS. Impeding the runner without the ball is OBS.
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Tom

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Hey Tom,

In my update titled, "Replay to U of A Sam" I further indicated that F4 re-entered the infield across the path of R1. They did in fact hit very solid but neither one fell down however, they did dance about trying to get out of the crash. This also created a delay to the point of a "stand-still" for my runner and in my opinion gave F6 time to make the tag. In fact, trying to picture it my mind again I would say that my runner had not taken more than two steps in restarting her forward motion before being tagged.

It's hard to paint a picture of this and of course I don't expect anybody to make a call based on a depiction.

I'm thankful for any feedback on the matter and I think everybody has answered my question in their way. In fact I feel that everybody who has responded would have given me a better call.

Best regards!