Contact w/defender rounding bag - OBS ?

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ASA 2- man, I'm PU. R1 @1B .. long single R1 goes to 3B and rounds 3b making contact rounding the bag with F5 who is in the way essentially (no ball, ball is cut off and being walked in) - Runners essentially holding off their respective bags.

I have given the DDB signal .. R1 returns to 3B and all goes on, end of it.

Between innings my partner had an interesting take on what to me was an automatic OBS call.

"Where was that runner going?"

"Probably no where, just rounding the bag."

"Well then her progress wasnt impeded".

The contact at the bases when rounding.. automatic obs or is that a factor in the call?

CA coaches have come to utilize this as a free shot and his point was made because the coach was lecturing his runner that when my arm is out, she should be running home. My partner said he did not have OBS (despite fairly significant contact).

It seemed to me his point had a lot of merit and may change my thinking on this call.