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Old Thu Jun 09, 2005, 09:54pm
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Re: Blocking Plate

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Originally posted by dvellison
What everyone has failed to point out is this:

1) The purpose of a base runner is to reach home plate
2) The catcher was in the legal base path area
3) It is perfectly legal for a base runner to make contact
with a catcher to attempt to dislodge the ball.
4) This is not malicious. He didn't use contact to be
malicious, he used contact to dislodge the ball
resulting in scoring a run.

Why is everyone having so much difficulty with this. If the catcher doesn't want to risk getting injured, MOVE!
1) Duh. 2) No he was not. 3) Yes, in MLB. 4) Horse ****. In any game with a malicious contact rule this was malicous contact. This was not one of those games.
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