2) This is the one I thought was really wrong...no one really complained about #1 above, but this one set off some yelling...runners on 1st and 2nd. Slow grounder to 1st base. F3 comes charging in, turns to throw to 1st, no one is covering....finally F4 comes running over and F3 throws the ball wildly high, hits off the glove of F4 and goes pretty far into right-field. After the ball goes off F4 glove, he lands and collides into batter-runner, knocking him to the ground. The BU correctly pointed and declared "Obstruction" and held the call at first as it is a delayed dead ball, but the batter-runner was hit and landed hard and didn't get up, so time was called to tend to him. When the dust settled, the batter was given 1st base, and R1 and R2 were given 2nd and 3rd base respectively.
I made the point that the runners should at least be given one extra base for the obstruction but they weren't. In short, wasn't the defense "rewarded" for causing the obstruction? Luckily the next couple batters both got hits so runs ended up scoring anyways, but the obstruction essentially prevented any runners from advancing on the bad throw....
Shouldn't it have been one extra base (batter to 2nd, R1 to 3rd, R2 gets home)? Can you award even more given that the ball was rolling into foul territory of right field and the F9 was not backing up the play/throw? (Judge they would have gotten 2 extra bases had obstruction not occurred)
Was it the right call to call time when batter didn't get up? Should you let R1 and R2 run as long as they can before the ball comes back in and the play ends?