Injuries during steals of home in Men's ASA SP?

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Originally posted by Bluefoot
I attended a pre-season organizational meeting for a Men's ASA SP Rec league that I work here in Connecticut to familiarize the teams with the new rules for this season and to discuss them. The league is considering modifying the stealing rule for their league only, so that a steal of home is not possible. Some are concerned that many collisions and possible injuries will occur when F1 and/or F2 will collide with incoming runners at the plate during live ball "steal" situations. Although this is a new rule this year, does anyone have any relevant experience and opinions on whether collisions/injuries are more frequent during these types of plays?

Yes, I do. They don't exist!

The only rule change was to allow stealing. Another rule change was to require a defender to have possession of the ball or get the hell out of the way.

There was no change on "crashes, collisions or interference." If there are still collisions on this type of play, you may want to start dumping people for USC.

Logistically, their modification to the rule could present some strange scenarios, depending on exactly how their modification is worded. For instance, R1 on 3B, R2 on 1B. R2 can advance to 2B, but R1 can't go home. Or R1 on 2B and tries to advance to 3B: catcher's throw to 3B goes into left field, but R1 can't score and must stay at 3B.

So, in effect, they are playing 10U running rules. A bit extreme if you ask me, but it's their league.