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Originally Posted by DG
You are reading between the lines and there is nothing there.
"CONTACT RULE (All Babe Ruth and Cal Ripken Baseball Divisions) - If a runner attempting to reach home plate intentionally and maliciously runs into a defensive player in the area of home plate, he will be called out on the play and ejected from the game. The objective of this rule is to penalize the offensive team for crashing the defensive player, rather than trying to reach home plate. Obviously, this is an umpire's judgement call."
That's all there is in the Babe Ruth rulebook on malicious contact. Key words are "home plate". Unless of course the rule has changed for 2006, I only have the 2005 book.
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DG,
The rule is specific to HP because it allows us to get BOTH an out & ejection, even if the runner were to 'score' on the play.
9.04 only allows an ejection, NOT an out or the ability to deny a run for MC.
9.04(d) covers ejections for all other MC.