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TOPIC: Sliding |
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| Administrator
January 17, 2013
10:51:54 PM
Entry #: 4027937
| The runner must always slide when the play is close. True or False? Explain your answer.
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| henry
January 18, 2013
3:56:13 PM
Entry #: 4028049
| Any runner does not have to slide, but they have to avoid contact or taking the fielder out in anyway.
It is possible if the runner was coming home and the catcher was 2-3 ft up the line if the runner slid she would be out because she would never reach the plate. If she stayed up passing the catcher not hitting her-she could reach home plate.
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| Perry
January 20, 2013
10:53:05 PM
Entry #: 4028380
| Don't have to slide, but if the fielder has the ball you must avoid contact.
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| Nov
January 21, 2013
12:40:14 AM
Entry #: 4028393
| the guys are correct runner has to avoid contact [malicious]. whether or not the fielder has the ball tho - cannot crash into a clueless fielder in the base path without the ball and fall back on "she was in my way". fielder with the ball, runner can slide [including into fielder], stop & reverse, stop & give up, run around [if further than 3' from base path, out for going too far]. incidental contact is acceptable
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| Bill
February 7, 2013
9:45:30 PM
Entry #: 4031901
| If the defender has the ball, the runner basically has five (5) options: 1) they can go down, or slide 2) they can go around, as long as they stay in the base line 3) they can stop, or give themselves up 4) they can retreat, or return to the last base touched 5) they can jump over a defender, as long as the contact is minimal, as in the results of the contact only constitutes rearranging the dust on a defender's shoulder/uniform. ASA RULES SUPPLEMENT #13.
The rule is the same in federation (high school) except that you can only jump over a fielder if the fielder is on the ground.
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| Perry
February 8, 2013
6:16:30 PM
Entry #: 4032069
| Even a runner from first headed toward second to break-up a double play doesn't have to slide. As long as the runner runs directly to second, with no veering toward a fielder or trying to reach out with the arms or hands to interfer. That runner can run "straight up" to the base.
ASA 8-7-J 1-3 EFFECT. Also,
RULES SUPPLEMENT #33, INTERFERENCE.
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| Greg
February 8, 2013
7:49:42 PM
Entry #: 4032094
| Never have to slide. There is absolutely nothing in the rule book saying you have to slide. You have to avoid contact. Bill pretty much covers the details of the options a runner has if the defender has the ball. If a defender does not have the ball, it's basically the "the inside out" rule. At first base, the batter-runner basically has foul territory, and fielder has the right to fair. Same at home, without the ball, the catcher has fair territory to set up in (without of course standing directly on the home plate), and the runner has foul territory coming home. Any league that institutes a slide rule is asking for trouble. It's unenforceable and adverse to the rules of the game.
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| Cindy
February 10, 2013
11:15:15 PM
Entry #: 4032280
| Our 12U & 10U league has a "must slide" rule, and nobody can ever define it. Nor is it enforced consistantly by parent umpires. In our bylaws, all it's says is that "the runner must slide on a close play." It's arbitrary at best.
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| Nov
February 17, 2013
5:17:50 PM
Entry #: 4033466
| Cindy, I've been advising leagues that I've been involved in for years to eliminate any "must slide" rules. they are a liability issue. if i girl slides and is injured, parents can sue the league, directors, umpires because their daughter 'is not able to slide properly' but was forced to 'because the league says she has to'. lawyers would have a field day with this. Greg said it best at the end of his comments
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