[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by TwoBits

According to that wording, not sliding should not be an automatic out. If she attempts to avoid collision by going around a defensive player, then she should be safe. However, I understand your problem because I'm sure the powers-that-be in your league are envisioning a mandatory slide rule.

I do a summer rec league with mandatory slide rules, but fortunately they are so poorly worded that it leaves a lot of gray area for me to interpret. The rule in this league is simply, "Runner must slide if play is close". When a coach asks me what that means to me, I tell them if the ball can beat the runner to the base, then its close. However, if the runner can get to a base, slow down to a point that she can stop on the base before the ball gets there, then its not a close play.

We have discussed this on this forum many times before. I am still amazed, in our litigious society that any league would institute a "must slide" rule.