Heres the situation from this past weekend. Score is 3-3 in the bottom of the 7th with runners on 1st and 2nd. Girl hits a bloop to right field. R1 runs through 3rd base and into F5 who was standing about 4-5 feet in foul territory even with the bag. R1 runs into F5 and proceeds to home where she is tagged out 4 feet up the line and the ball beet her by 4 steps. R1 is called out and then all H3LL breaks out HP ump call obstruction on F5 and awards home ending the game 4-3 them. Field ump made no signal of obstruction and says he didnt see it. My question is about F5 causing the obstruction where she was standing clearly out of the path a normal runner would/should have taken. Also is the next base automatically awarded even though she was thrown out by such a large amount. Love to get your view on this one.
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PTC
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PTC