Runner goes in standing up

[bob jenkins]

I gnerally agree with jicecone on this play (using FED rules).

In FED it's a violation when a runner, on a force play, does not slide in a direct line between the bases. Exception: The runner may slde or run in a direction away from the fielder.

Note that the rule doesn't say that contact / alteration is required. Nor does it say that the runner must slide (he can run away from the fielder).

Since the runner didnt' slide in a direct line, didn't slide away from the fielder, and didn't run away from the fielder, by a strict reading of the rules, I think this is a FPSR violation.

I understand that what is written might not be what the rules committee meant, though. We'll see.