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Recent rules notes from Williamsport
Our League President was just discussing this a couple of weeks ago. He mentioned that he had received a notice from LL Headquarters on this subject.
If I recall, they specified that a player must only slide/avoid if the fielder HAS possession of the ball at the time of contact. So, in this case the player would not have had to slide/avoid
However, for purposes of ruling on interference, the usual "in the act of fielding" standard still applies. The runner could be out for interference if the ball was close enough to the catcher to be in the act.
As for ejection, since the boy didn't have to slide/avoid the ruling should be train wreck and I don't see how any intentional contact could be called and therefore ejection is crazy. This is something that would be appealed in our league since ejection means automatic 1 game suspension.
I would have called the boy out for interference and that's it.
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