Thread: illegal Slide?
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Old Fri Jul 05, 2002, 11:21am
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Originally posted by Gre144
So are you saying that R1 can intentionally slash the fielder with his leg just so long as he is sliding in the basepath? In the situation that I described R1 could have easily avoided contact with the fielder by sliding in a direct line between the two bases away from F4. Instead he chose to intentionally slide into F4 who happen to be partly in the base path as he attempted to throw to first
Your reading is as faulty as your call. I NEVER said slashing was acceptable. I said a LEGAL slide. Do you know the difference?

Please explain how a runner can slide "in a direct line between the two bases away from F4", if "F4 who happen to be partly in the base path as he attempted to throw to first"? You're contradicting yourself.

By your original post, R1 made a LEGAL slide, but you didn't like it, so you "banged" him.

Bob
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