[QUOTE=Steven Tyler;667158]
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You interchange the word AND for OR,then both scenarios would have to happen. The word OR makes the ruling consistent with the other wordings in the FED rule book. It's the same if the infielder is off to the infield or outfield side of the bag. Would you have them change the wording there also?
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Steve perhaps I should have just said adopt the NCAA FPSR where in NCAA contact after the bag is legal as long as the player was sliding directly into the bag.
In FED, even if the runner slides directly into the base but slides past the base and makes contact it is considered an illegal slide. (FED rule 2-32-2(c))
In other words, IMO, sliding past a base and making contact (as long as the contact is not malicious or alters the play) should be legal. As it stands now in FED, if a runner slides past the base and makes contact it is an infraction.
Pete Booth