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Originally Posted by wyo-referee
my son was the catcher, he didn't have the ball yet, as the throw was in the air coming towards homeplate but up the line, he went up the line and jumped to catch it and had his legs contacted by the runner and then the umpire called the runner out. I don't believe the contact was intentional at all, just two players going in opposite directions to make a play.
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As others have stated, Babe Ruth does not have a "MUST SLIDE" rule. Some local organizations may.
Obviously, our standard answer to most of these things is "I would have to have been there" to properly judge.
As I am envisioning the scenario you described, I would not have called the runner out. It sounds like an errant throw drew the catcher into harms way and if he didn't have the ball in his possession, that is his problem, not the runners. Without malicious contact, I got nothing.