Train Wreck, Malicious Contact, or Obstruction.

[IRISHMAFIA]

[quote=Bluefoot]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Not possible. If the runner is at full speed and there is no mention of an altered path, it cannot be OBS as the catcher did not impede the runner.
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You've got to be kidding. So if the F2, without the ball stands right next to home plate, that is, on the 1B side of it, directly on the baseline drawn directly from 3B and home plate, 60 feet and 1 inch away from 3B, that the runner is expected to not run directly into F2?

If that were the original scenario, I'd worry about it, but it wasn't.

If the F2's presence in that spot causes the runner to deviate her path, so she does not get injured by running into F2, then that would be OBS, I believe.

Never said that wasn't, but if it were the case, the runner wouldn't be at full-speed, would she?

Say R1 misses home plate but runs into F2 (without the ball) in the above scenario. R1 has the opportunity to move to touch home plate, but if the collision with F2 prevents R1 from doing so, and then if R1 is tagged out before reaching home plate, then F2 has committed OBS on R1 because F2 impeded R1 from touching home, while without the ball.

No, she hasn't because the runner is considered to have touched the plate once she passes it.

I understand your point that the runner is no longer a runner once she has scored, but is the runner expected to go from running full-tilt to stopping on a dime? Or changing direction and breaking her ankle?

Never made such a statement. I said attempt to check-up or avoid.

What would you call if an F3, without the ball, stood directly behind 1B as a runner was trying to beat out an infield hit? F3 is not in the runner's way between the batter's box and 1B, but is clearly impeding the runner's direct path that goes through the base? Are you meaning that that should not also be OBS?

Again, that is a runner and if there is an impedement, it is OBS.

I'm done with the "what ifs"