October 27th 2013

October 27th 2013------------
Lousy call costs Sox. Implicit in any rule or law is the term reasonableness. A base runner has the right to an unobstructed path. What that should be interpreted as is "as long as he is running in the baseline where he is obligated to run". Ignored by most scribes and Joe Torre (and more importantly the umpires) Will Middlebrooks was well outside of the baseline prone on his stomach when Craig decides to run well outside of the baseline and over Middlebrooks prone body. This is not obstruction as the rule was intended. Craig was given an unobstructed path home and he chose another route, outside the baseline and into a player who was on his belly. That is not what the rule should be used for as it benefits the player who is doing what he is not supposed to be doing: running outside of the baseline-the path that he is supposed to run in.