obstruction

[Dakota]

Originally posted by Mountaineer
To move the runner now on 2nd back to 1st is, in a sense, penalizing her and her team for the defensive mistake.

For this to be penalizing the offense, you would have to assume that had there been no obstruction, that R1 would have eventually made to safely to 3rd.

You are not penalizing the offense at all by returning R1 to 2B and the BR to 1B. If fact the opposite, - you are still protecting the offense, since if R1 HAD safely returned to 2B, there is a very good chance the BR would have been tagged out.