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Old Mon Apr 19, 2010, 05:31pm
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Up to and including the 2004 POEs on Obstruction:

"If other runners are advancing when an umpire calls time following a play on an obstructed runner, a rule of thumb for placement of the other runners is: If they have not reached half way to the next base, they must return to the previous base. However, if they have advanced over half way, they are allowed to advance to the next base."

If recollection serves me correctly, at that point it was considered redundant as they wanted the umpire's judgment to determine where to place runners affected by the OBS call and stopping an advancing runner due to killing the ball to rule on an obstruction did affect the runner advancing at the time.
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