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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
I cannot tell you that you are not crazy (I don't know, are you?), but this umpire definitely made up this bunch of B.S. Any tag on a runner must be done by the ball in glove or the ball in the bare hand. Those are the only two ways it can be done. That any part of the body stuff only applies to tagging the base on a force, not the runner.
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Steve has it right. If there was no requirement to actually tag a runner with then all a catcher would ever have to do is block the plate and catch the ball before the runner arrived.
I checked through a lot of my notes and the only reference I can find to 'hot' concerns getting enough fluids to drink.