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re: what was that ball 4 pick off call..

Posted on 6/9/12 at 5:53 pm to
Posted by Fububutsy
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 6/9/12 at 5:53 pm to
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Don't think any of this is against the rules. But feel free to submit it to rules committee.


Well to be technical, and I do mean technical, it was obstruction.

Because he was awarded second base on the walk, the entire thing becomes a pickoff play. well, here it is in the rule book.

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SECTION 54. Type 2 Obstruction: A.R. 4: On a pickoff play at any base, the defensive player must clearly have possession of the ball before blocking the base with any part of the defensive player’s body. The umpire will call “That’s obstruction” and then signal and call “Time.” The ball is dead immediately, and the runner being played on is awarded one base beyond the last base he had attained before the obstruction.


So technically, he should have been on third base because he blocked the bag before he got the ball.
This post was edited on 6/9/12 at 5:55 pm
Posted by Fububutsy
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Jan 2007
3970 posts
Posted on 6/9/12 at 6:01 pm to
Or once again, technically just on second base because I misread the last part about last base obtained before obstruction. That would have been first, so should be awarded second.
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