Erstad - Estrada Collision at the plate

[dvellison]

What everyone has failed to point out is this:

1) The purpose of a base runner is to reach home plate
2) The catcher was in the legal base path area
3) It is perfectly legal for a base runner to make contact
with a catcher to attempt to dislodge the ball.
4) This is not malicious. He didn't use contact to be
malicious, he used contact to dislodge the ball
resulting in scoring a run.

Why is everyone having so much difficulty with this. If the catcher doesn't want to risk getting injured, MOVE!