Award after obstruction on another runner

[youngump]

With no ill intent, your rulebook lawyering just isn't quite getting you where you're trying to get. A couple of thoughts, first:

If the rule means "tagged" (I can't think of another way an obstructed runner could be "put out"), that's what it should say.

You didn't read my first response to you very carefully then. There are other ways. But suppose your interpretation was right. When would an immediate dead ball result? The rule probably could be less easily misread if it read when a runner would be out if not for the result of the penalty of the obstruction; but it's not exactly easy to get to your result anyway and it would make it harder for people to refresh themselves on the rule.

The casebook comments, in 2 different places as detailed above, do specifically state when the "dead ball" call is to be made: "at the end of playing action,"

I'm not sure which case plays you mean and if you'll cite them we can discuss in more detail, but generally I think your confusion is this. A delayed dead ball is a situation where the ball will be dead at the end of playing action. That is the result of obstruction. The result of putting out a runner who is protected because of obstruction is a dead ball. A dead ball is not a delayed dead ball. If there is a case where they confuse them can you post it?

You may not like the rule but I assure you, your alternative would result in players confused as could be.
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