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Just one thing to add to this, that if OBS between 2nd & 3rd and the award would be 2nd, for the subsequent play exception to take effect, that runner would have to return to 2nd safely and then try to advance to 3rd.
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Erase all the other noise from the play. Ignore trying to read the coach's mind. It's really this simple, and there's only one thing you should be worried about. At the moment of obstruction, where did you, the umpire, think she would get to had there not been obstruction. Ball in the infield - runner approaching 3rd. I think it's clear the answer is 3rd.
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An umpire making a decision using that logic, or even making that statement after the fact, is waiting far too long to decide what the proper award should be.
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Where does it say in the rules and interpretations that we must decide immediately what the proper award should be, and not deviate from that decision, no matter what happens next?
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We just had this discussion in "That's Interference"
http://forum.officiating.com/933817-post43.html
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And it is nothing new. Same direction I received a quarter of a century ago long before I became a UIC and clinician.
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![]() Having said that the big point on this thread is the time to make your decision on where to protect a runner who has been obstructed is at the time of the obstruction based on situation at the time of the obstruction. Don't wait till end of all play and then decide on award. The fact that a runner is put out on a close play when she was obstructed someplace else on the bases is not necessarily a reason to award that base. |
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