Had this tonight

[chapmaja]

What's your call. I was the BU so it wasn't my call to make.

R1 on 2nd, R1 on first. Single to CF. R1 coming home. Throw beats her to the plate and F2, who at this time possess the ball, drops down to block the plate. R1 legally slides towards the plate and the contact knocks the ball out of F2's glove where it lands next to F2. The contact also knocks F2 backwards so she is sitting over all of home plate. R1 is trying to touch the plate, but can't touch it because it's covered by F2. F2 picks up the ball and tags R1. As F2 is getting up, R1 touches home plate.

What's the call?



My partner was a little late in making the call, but called obstruction on the catcher because she was sitting over the entire plate not in possession of the ball. He said he waited until she touched the plate to call it a dead ball because he wanted to make sure she was given a chance to touch home plate, thus avoiding an appeal for missing the plate after she was awarded home plate.

I have to agree with this call on the play.

For the record, we use local league modifications to basic ASA rules for the league.