How do you determine obstruction?

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Thu Mar 11, 2010, 06:03pm

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Originally Posted by WestMichiganBlue

...All this brings me to my question: Do you, absent any contact, have to see a visible and definable physical deviation on the part of the runner before you will call obstruction?...

Yes, so long as "deviation" includes sliding short, slowing, etc. as well as trying to go around, etc. I wouldn't consider it obstruction merely because a runner chose to slide, though.

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