[greymule]

At higher levels, especially in baseball, the runner will simply bowl the guy over.

You mean ONLY in baseball, don't you? Bowl over a player in softball and you should be done for the night. And now, it seems, in ASA the runner will also be ruled out for doing something so stupid.

What I meant was that in, say, high-level SP, the runners keep running hard and don't slow down or run around fielders who are in their way. They don't deliberately run people over, but they're not programmed to slow down or avoid and will collide and get the call. We've all seen runners charge around 2B head down and crash into F6. This is as opposed to most girls' play, where runners will slow down or go around fielders. I've even had runners stop, look at me, and say, "She's in my way!"

Whether USC results in outs in ASA is still up in the air, I thought. In any case, I've seen plenty of accidental, hard-charging collisions that I wouldn't call USC. Of course, I would eject on an obviously intentional crash.