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Originally Posted by jmkupka
My reasoning is that, while there is no "must slide", there is a slide, avoid, or surrender-whatever is needed to avoid a collision-that didn't happen here. Catcher had the ball, was waiting to apply the tag, and the collision took her out.
I misused the term "crash". I see "crash" as the unfortunate case of ball, fielder, and runner all meeting at the same time, and no INT or OBS is called.
At game speed, this was my rationale, and it's what I explained to the OC.
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OC: "But ump, my runner did slide...."
You said in your OP that the runner did slide....so how can you tell the OC that the
bolded part did not occur and that's the reason for his runner being called out?