F2 drops ball on tag while blocking plate

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Originally Posted by youngump

But even at my level, I always understood that if I call obstruction the ball is dead once all action has stopped: I've got dead ball. Obstruction on the short stop. Then I expect the plate umpire to signal it back to live.

Nope. You understand incorrectly. If you're not going to do anything with the OBS, you simply drop your arm and go on (assuming the runner got to the base you had her protected.) No need to bring unnecessary attention to yourself by anouncing something that happened and then not needing to do anything about it.