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2013 MLB postseason running thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by LongTimeListener, Sep 30, 2013.

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  1. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Like I just posted on another forum, his feet were up in the air like goalposts. Absolutely the right call.
     
    HanSenSE, Oct 27, 2013
    #913
  2. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    He knew what he was doing. Stay down and try to get up and the legs aren't going up like that.
     
    MileHigh, Oct 27, 2013
    #914
  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Regardless of that, though, and as they're saying on TV, intent doesn't matter. Only that he was in the way.
     
    LongTimeListener, Oct 27, 2013
    #915
  4. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Robert Neyland on the forward pass: "Only three things can happen and two are bad."

    Red Sox are learning the same is true of throwing home to third in a tie game.
     
    Steak Snabler, Oct 27, 2013
    #916
  5. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Curse of the Bambino II?
     
    HanSenSE, Oct 27, 2013
    #917
  6. champ_kind

    champ_kind Well-Known Member

    Very akin to the Tigers in 2006 world series
     
    champ_kind, Oct 27, 2013
    #918
  7. Rusty Shackleford

    Rusty Shackleford Active Member

    Learn something new every day - I couldn't have told you how the interference rule worked before this. Since intent doesn't matter, that was the correct call. Question though - are we sure Craig would have scored without the interference? I think it would have been a close play.
     
    Rusty Shackleford, Oct 27, 2013
    #919
  8. Roscablo

    Roscablo Well-Known Member

    I think he scores easy. Throw just beat him anyway and he lost a good jump on that trip.
     
    Roscablo, Oct 27, 2013
    #920
  9. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Throw beat him by a good distance.

    But it doesn't matter. I saw it called earlier this year where, in a rundown, the runner bumped into a defensive player (who wasn't playing the ball) while moving back toward third base. Because of the contact, he was awarded home.

    In fact, without hearing any interviews on it, I wouldn't be surprised if Craig was trying to create contact just because of this rule. Smart coaches teach that. And as we all know, the St. Louis Cardinals are SMART!!!!!!
     
    LongTimeListener, Oct 27, 2013
    #921
  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Rule 7.06.

    When obstruction occurs, the umpire shall call or signal “Obstruction.”

    (a) If a play is being made on the obstructed runner, or if the batter-runner is obstructed before he touches first base, the ball is dead and all runners shall advance, without liability to be put out, to the bases they would have reached, in the umpire's judgment, if there had been no obstruction. The obstructed runner shall be awarded at least one base beyond the base he had last legally touched before the obstruction. Any preceding runners, forced to advance by the award of bases as the penalty for obstruction, shall advance without liability to be put out.

    Rule 7.06(a) Comment: When a play is being made on an obstructed runner, the umpire shall signal obstruction in the same manner that he calls “Time,” with both hands overhead. The ball is immediately dead when this signal is given; however, should a thrown ball be in flight before the obstruction is called by the umpire, the runners are to be awarded such bases on wild throws as they would have been awarded had not obstruction occurred. On a play where a runner was trapped between second and third and obstructed by the third baseman going into third base while the throw is in flight from the shortstop, if such throw goes into the dugout the obstructed runner is to be awarded home base. Any other runners on base in this situation would also be awarded two bases from the base they last legally touched before obstruction was called.
     
    MileHigh, Oct 27, 2013
    #922
  11. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    The two most infamous cases of obstruction in baseball history --- one called (tonight), one not called (Ed Armbrister in 1975) have both gone against the Red Sox.
     
    Steak Snabler, Oct 27, 2013
    #923
  12. spikechiquet

    spikechiquet Well-Known Member

    Rob Gant would question you on that. He's still trying to get back after being thrown off by Ken Hrbek.
     
    spikechiquet, Oct 27, 2013
    #924
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