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Old Thu May 18, 2006, 08:05am
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Mike: The ball was reaching the glove as contact was made, ball deflected off F2s glove, hit her in the chest, and fell to the ground. F2 stepped back as R1 hit her arm/glove, otherwise might have been bigger crash. Without the contact, quite possibly the ball is caught in time for the force, would have been very close play.
How? If the catcher started BEHIND the plate, how does the runner get to the point of contacting her without scoring first? Even more so if F2 was moving backward and was contacted by R1 before the ball reached her.

Something is wrong.
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Old Thu May 18, 2006, 09:21am
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How? If the catcher started BEHIND the plate, how does the runner get to the point of contacting her without scoring first? Even more so if F2 was moving backward and was contacted by R1 before the ball reached her.

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Perhaps, since runners are not required to run bases in any particular order in ASA (tongue firmly in cheek folks), this runner is coming from first base toward home, and F2 is "behind the plate" in the front of the LHB Batter's box...

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Old Thu May 18, 2006, 09:26am
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Perhaps, since runners are not required to run bases in any particular order in ASA (tongue firmly in cheek folks), this runner is coming from first base toward home, and F2 is "behind the plate" in the front of the LHB Batter's box...
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Old Thu May 18, 2006, 07:41pm
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How? If the catcher started BEHIND the plate, how does the runner get to the point of contacting her without scoring first? Even more so if F2 was moving backward and was contacted by R1 before the ball reached her.

Something is wrong.
Mike I am probably just not describing it accurately enough. F2 was set up on the back of the plate with her arm stretched out in front of her (over the plate) to receive the ball in such a way that R1s body made contact with her arm as the ball was reaching her glove.

What is wrong here is that I applied the theory of remaining upright and not avoiding contact to a situation where the feilder was not holding the ball.
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