ASA Play

[youngump]

Originally Posted by EsqUmp

ASA scaled back the language of Rule 10 (without any note as to why) a few years ago. There was a time when Rule 10 stated that no umpire shall impose a penalty for a violation of the offending team would benefit from the imposing that violation. In this case, imposing a penalty (the penalty for catcher's obstruction), would benefit the offending team. There is at least an argument that the penalty should not be imposed at all. That protective rule seems to have escaped the newer rule books though.

Without regard to what everyone else is telling you, which you should listen to, you're also wrong on this. Since the ball became dead as soon as the violation occurred not imposing the penalty would involve returning the runner to first. Once the dead ball bell rings, you can't unring it to see what happened after it became dead (at least as far as live ball action is concerned).