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Collision at the plate
I recently had my field test for my association, (all first year umps are required to do a double header to evaluate if they can move on to the second year of a two-year apprentice program) and everything went well. My game at the plate had a pretty rough collision where the catcher, with the ball, got railroaded by the runner coming in. I was taught by the trainers that if anyone ever came in standing up and made contact that he was out, but if they really crushed the guy, it was MC and an ejection was warrented. so I wound up and tossed the kid, much to the joy of my evaluators, and much to the shock of the kid and the coach (even the catcher wanted to know why the kid was ejected)
my question is, this play happens all the time at the major league level and it's legal isn't it? is it just FED rules that don't allow for contact? I know this is a noob question to ask, but I am concerned that I have either the intent or the text of the rule wrong
Joe
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