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Originally Posted by Big Slick
BTW, let's take this play one step further - suppose the ball is 3 seconds later in arrival, but the runner still blasts the catcher (arms extended). How do you rule?.
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There's no point in the timeline where the crash is not a crash. If the contact is ejection-worthy (and you were there, I was not) - it's ejection-worthy. You mention there's a brief window called "wreck". I contend this is baseball terminology (and becoming quickly obsolete). The "waiting for a tag" requires no timeframe... either the catcher DOES or DOES NOT have the ball. If the runner deviates from her chosen path (which, in the video, doesn't happen until the moment of the catch, but in most scenarios will happen earlier than that), then at the moment of that deviation --- A) catcher has the ball; B) catcher does not have the ball. there's no in between. In A - not OBS, in B - OBS. In EITHER, the contact should be judged on it's ejectionability on it's own, regardless of timing.