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It's been a long while since I studied the baseball rules, but if his foot was between the runner and the bag, this sure sounds like interference to me.
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yup, that's interference ... that's why you stand to the side of the bag, and not in front of it or on tope of it
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Under all rules, if the first baseman gloved the ball prior to the runner getting to the base or having to slow down, there is no obstruction. It's virtually impossible for a defensive player who has possession of the ball to commit obstruction. If the first baseman had not yet caught the ball when the possible obstruction occurred, it gets a little sticky. Under pro rules, if the fielder is in the act of catching a throw, no obstruction. NCAA, High School, and Little League treat the situation differently. Under Little League rules, if the throw takes the fielder to that position in order to catch the ball, it is not necessarily obstruction. It's one of those plays you'd have to see to really judge.
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It's hard when you're in little league because I know they don't like to encourage kids to hurt each other, but the runners job is to run through the first baseman in that situation, and interference will then be called on the 1st baseman.
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A. blow through the base and cleat his foot as you go by B. Blow through the base as if he ain't there and do the best you can to dislodge the ball as you go through him. The runner has an absolute right to the base path. and the first baseman opens himself to rough play if he obstructs the base path.
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