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Originally Posted by DG
Malicious contact is umpire judgement and not protestable.
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I find myself in agreement with DG's assertion in regards to malicious contact.
The reason I do is that, unlike Interference, the rules do not provide any objective criteria that an umpire
could misapply in determining what is and is not "malicious contact". By rule, it is left entirely up to the umpire's judgement.
I might not LIKE the umpire's call in mcrowder's hypothetical; I might think it was a "really bad" call; but, as hard as I try, I can't conceive of any way that I could validly protest it.
JM