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My guess: F3 is pulled into the BR's path, the BR put his arms up in front of his chest to cushion the blow, and the umpire assumed that the BR crashed into F3 maliciously.
I've seen runners with little time to react to an impending wreck do something that looks malicious, when in reality it was simply a defensive move. And it really looks bad when the runner weighs almost twice as much as the fielder. Everybody will be screaming for an ejection because the fielder went flying about ten feet.
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