Need a little clarification

[thumpferee]

I agree with the last two posts as well as many others. The thing I would like to make clear is there are rules which we as officials are responsible to make. As the original poster stated, Little League Rules. If the fielder has the ball, which in his situation seemed clear he did, contact was made because the runner failed to avoid, and knocked the ball out of the fielders hands who had the ball in his possession. In FED, it is within a step if I'm not mistaken. In Little League players must learn how to slide and when they need to slide (or avoid). There is nothing incidental about NOT sliding. SLIDE OR AVOID or be called out. If we all want to get on the same page here, interpret the rules the way they were meant to be interpreted. Incidental contact is where the throw is astray and contact occurs before either has a chance to avoid contact In this thread, the runner had his chance to avoid contact and slide but did not. There is nothing incidental bout that.