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Old Thu Mar 06, 2003, 02:19pm
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Teaching fielders to stand on the inside corner of 2B to slow the natural path of the runner is cheating, not gaining an advantage within the rules. It's not like setting a pick in basketball. At higher levels, especially in baseball, the runner will simply bowl the guy over. And if a player cheats that way in baseball and the umps don't call it, he will get nailed the next time he bats. Of course, that's not within the rules, either, but it is the main barrier to the many kinds of cheating that the umpires can seldom detect.

I would like to see a base award for intentional obstruction, like putting a knee down at 1B on a runner returning. It already exists in baseball.

[Edited by greymule on Mar 6th, 2003 at 01:22 PM]
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