Working Alone.. one of those plays

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by BlitzkriegBob

I guess I'm having a hard time imagining this happening. There's no way F8 should be blocking your view, but I also have a hard time seeing how F6 would be blocking you since normally they would be out acting as a cut-off or relay.

Not as a criticism, but from that distance it seems like if you are keeping your eyes on the ball that you should have been able to recognize that a play was being made at 2B and that you could have taken even just a couple of steps to get an unobstructed view, assuming that you didn't have a confused F6 step into your view at the last second. Even if that were the case, if it's not a bang-bang play there's nothing stopping you from improving your angle after she steps in front of you. As Mike says, it's not your distance from second that was the issue.

I can visualize the alignment, with F4 covering 2nd, F6 trying to cutoff the throw to home, and F8 just happening to be aligned with the imaginary line between them. Again, being part way to PP, 1st base side puts you off that sight line.
Of course, there will be blocked plays no matter how many umps there are, but one has always been nonsense.