Holiday Slide - Legal or Not?

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Originally Posted by Rich Ives

NOT a violation in NCAA. In NCAA you can go straight through the base. There's a diagram illustrating it.

Wrong. It is a violation in NCAA baseball.

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Yes, you can go through the base. But, you need to have a legal slide to do so. This wasn't (at that level).

Yep.

Originally Posted by Rich

Oh, there's a violation here. The path is the width of the base only and the contact is slightly to the left of the baseline -- with the contact occurring behind the base in this manner, I'm not giving the runner an inch of leeway. I'd call this in a heartbeat and feel quite good about it.

Yep. The NCAA put a video bulletin out this year that emphasizes that the runner's legs and torso have to go straight into the base. This is a blatant FPSR violation at the FED and NCAA level.