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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
However, if we go with the given that he DOES know the rule and applied it properly, it is very possible that your "maybe the umpire believed that the catcher caused the dive by going into the runner's legs" is what he saw.
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If the catcher's glove made contact with the runner's legs, even if the umpire thought the dive was legal, shouldn't he have called the runner out for being
tagged on the legs?
Because, if there was no contact with the runner's legs, then the only conclusion is that the
runner initiated the maneuver and was not forced into that maneuver by being tripped up.