When does a slide begin?

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

If he was wasn't safe at the time of the malicious contact, when the ball is dead immediately, the runner is out. I don't see a run scoring in this situation.

Not in OBR, or the modified versions of it. The result of the play is what counts. The ball got knocked out of the catcher's mitt, and the runner won the race back to the plate. Safe, Time, You're Gone.

In HS games, you are correct that no run could possibly count. The only part of the Malicious Contact rule, or as it is commonly called "slide or avoid" rule, that carries over into OBR-based youth ball games is the ejection penalty.