When is runner ejected?

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally posted by WestMichBlue
1st game of DH, bottom of 7th, tie score, R1 on 3B, batter hits ground ball to deep short, R1 coming home, F2 blocking plate.

R1 lowers shoulder, levels F2. At time of contact thrown ball is just behind R1. Both players sprawl on ground, ball goes to backstop, R1 gets up and touches home.

Umpire rules no interference, but malicious contact.

1. Does play continue, allowing R1 to score, thus ending game?

2. Can R1 be ejected when game is over? If this were a HS game, and State Assoc rules do not allow an ejected player to play anymore that day, then your answer determines whether or not R1 can play in the 2nd game of the DH.

3. A twist - suppose that ball hit one of the players and dropped near the plate, allowing F1 to pick it up and tag R1 (2nd out) before she could score. Would you kill the play after the out to eject R1, or would you wait until B-R finished running?

WMB

Speaking ASA

Old rule. Allow the run. If there are still active runners, (and this is a stretch) the umpire would have to determine if the INTENTIONAL collision prevented the catcher from making a play on another runner, and could conceiveably call INT and rule the runner closest to home out, but your are still going to score the run. When the play is over, eject R1.

New rule. The moment R1 makes his malicious contact with F2, kill the ball, rule R1 out, eject R1 and return all runners to the base last touched at the time of the INT.

A player may be ejected after the end of the game if for no other reason than to document the event which took place on the field. If the player has a history of USC, it may very well be taken into account should some sort of action come up concerning said player.

New rule. See above.

Old rule. Unless you have cause to rule INT, you must rule obstruction, thus scoring the run. However, since the obstructed runner was "put out", the ball is killed and the appropriate award is made. Any other active runner would be returned to the last base touched or place on the base to which they were proceeding and were more than half-way at the time the ball was killed.





[Edited by IRISHMAFIA on Aug 28th, 2003 at 09:36 PM]