Luciano, Type A obstruction, 1977

[RichMSN]

Certainly a unique way to award second.  Heh heh.

 

[JaxRolo]

I like the way the runner was escorted to 2nd

[MB_Ump]

What exactly is there to argue? Pretty clear cut case. Maybe the manager feel he should have used the other arm to escort him to the base?

[mstaylor]

Certainly never dull with Ron around. 

[Replacematt]

What exactly is there to argue? Pretty clear cut case. Maybe the manager feel he should have used the other arm to escort him to the base?

Could make the argument he was out of his basepath before being obstructed.

[Larry in TN]

Could make the argument he was out of his basepath before being obstructed.

 

But was that move an attempt to avoid a tag or just trying to go around the defensive player?  The player he was trying to get around no longer had possession of the ball so I say it was the latter and not an out.

[Replacematt]

 

Could make the argument he was out of his basepath before being obstructed.

 

But was that move an attempt to avoid a tag or just trying to go around the defensive player?  The player he was trying to get around no longer had possession of the ball so I say it was the latter and not an out.

 

 

It was an attempt to avoid a tag. At the point he tries to go around, it is obstruction. It's just a question of how far he ran before that.

[Larry in TN]

It was an attempt to avoid a tag. At the point he tries to go around, it is obstruction. It's just a question of how far he ran before that.

 

How can it be an attempt to avoid a tag when the player he's going around doesn't have the ball?

[Haid D' Salaami]

 

What exactly is there to argue? Pretty clear cut case. Maybe the manager feel he should have used the other arm to escort him to the base?

Could make the argument he was out of his basepath before being obstructed.

 

out of what base path.. he wasnt avoiding a tag when he was out there

[Replacematt]

It was an attempt to avoid a tag. At the point he tries to go around, it is obstruction. It's just a question of how far he ran before that.

 

How can it be an attempt to avoid a tag when the player he's going around doesn't have the ball?

That's not who's attempting the tag.

[Larry in TN]

We was trying to go around F3 who had just thrown the ball.  F3 then went in the same direction and obstructed him.