Defense can be wherever they like, and a SS playing normal position, even if they are directly in the basepath isnkt hindering a runner at the release of the pitch. Also, obstruction is never an automatic base award, even if the runner is obstructed the award is the base the runner would have reached absent the obstruction. Could be the base they came from, could be one or more ahead.We had a base umpire try to move our F4 before the play began. He stated she was "standing on the base path". We argued that the runner creates the path and told her not to move. He waited till the next pitch, called obstruction and then moved the runner on 1st to 2nd.
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