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[QUOTE]Originally posted by LIIRISHMAN
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If you have a collision, the options are: 1) with minimal contact, and ball hasn't arrived, OBS and runner is safe, 2) with reasonable contact, ball and runner arrive simultaneously, a "train wreck", no call, 3) with major body-to-body contact, and either with ball, arrives simultaneously, or even on the way, INT, and runner is out, 4) same as 3) but add flagrant/unnecessary force/lowers shoulder/etc., INT, runner is out, and runner is ejected for USC. As I read the casebook ruling and the associated plays, I believe that INT out is included in any USC collision judgement if there was any possible play that the runner was thinking s/he was breaking up with the crash. Another casebook play (8.8-53) has a crash on the 1B side of home by a runner who has scored, and that is an INT call with USC ejection and an out on the next most advanced runner; there is a ruling trend to take an INT out with any USC crash, likely to keep any runner from justifying the crash as "for the team". |
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