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Unsportsmanlike Conduct under OBR


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i'm looking for examples of Unsportsmanlike Conduct that would result in an ejection under strict OBR.

There's a thought in our area that a collision at home plate by a runner and F2 is Unsportsmanlike Conduct and ejectable. 

I haven't found an interpretation to suggest that would be the case...so I'm looking for examples either video or written that would be ejectable under OBR Unsportsmanlike Conduct.

Here's the OBR rule:

6.04 (4.06) Unsportsmanlike Conduct (a) No manager, player, substitute, coach, trainer or batboy shall at any time, whether from the bench, the coach’s box or on the playing field, or elsewhere:

(1) Incite, or try to incite, by word or sign a demonstration by spectators;

(2) Use language which will in any manner refer to or reflect upon opposing players, an umpire, or any spectator;

(3) Call “Time,” or employ any other word or phrase or commit any act while the ball is alive and in play for the obvious purpose of trying to make the pitcher commit a balk.

(4) Make intentional contact with the umpire in any manner.

(b) (3.09) Players in uniform shall not address or mingle with spectator, nor sit in the stands before, during, or after a game. No manager, coach or player shall address any spectator before or during a game. Players of opposing teams shall not fraternize at any time while in uniform.

(c) No fielder shall take a position in the batter’s line of vision, and with deliberate unsportsmanlike intent, act in a manner to distract the batter.

PENALTY: The offender shall be removed from the game and shall leave the playing field, and, if a balk is made, it shall be nullified.

(d) (4.07) When a manager, player, coach or trainer is ejected from a game, he shall leave the field immediately and take no further part in that game. He shall remain in the club house or change to street clothes and either leave the park or take a seat in the grandstand well removed from the vicinity of his team’s bench or bullpen.

Rule 6.04(d) Comment (Rule 4.07 Comment ): If a manager, coach or player is under suspension he may not be in the dugout or press box during the course of a game. (e) (4.08) When the occupants of a player’s bench show violent disapproval of an umpire’s decision, the umpire shall first give warning that such disapproval shall cease.

PENALTY: [If such action continues] The umpire shall order the offenders from the bench to the club house. If he is unable to detect the offender, or offenders, he may clear the bench of all substitute players. The manager of the offending team shall have the privilege of recalling to the playing field only those players needed for substitution in the game.

Wendelstedt:

Ejectable Offenses (p 43,44)

Participants in the game, active or otherwise, are prohibited from:

  • Making any actions specifically intended to ridicule an umpire or his decision.  This includes drawing a line in the dirt to indicate the perceived location of the pitch, or indicating the perceived number of plays missed by holding up fingers on the hand
  • The use of histrionic gestures like violently waving arms or jumping up and down after being warned to stop
  • The use of profanity specifically directed at an umpire; or vulgar, personal, or threatening insults of an umpire
  • Calling time or employing any other word or phrases, or commit any act while the ball is alive, for the purpose of making the pitcher balk
  • Make intentional contact with any umpire
  • Standing in a position in the batter's line of vision for the deliberate and unsportsmanlike intent of distracting the batter
  • Continuing to argue with any order or instruction by an umpire after being warned by the umpire to cease
  • Continuing to argue a judgment decision after being warned by the umpire to cease 
  • Leaving their position, after being warned, for the purpose of arguing balls and strikes or checked swings
  • Leaving their position for the purpose of participating in, or instigating, a fight with a member of the opposing team
  • Making reference to the observation of a video replay that purportedly contradicts the disputed call after being warned to stop
  • Intentionally throwing at a batter
  • Throwing equipment in protest of an umpire's decision

Thank you.

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Here’s a relatively new interpretation for OBR that can be found in the 2016 BRD (section 348 about malicious contact, p. 232):

The umpire has the right to eject (a player) from the game if it’s (the contact) blatant, and he’d be automatically out. (Torre, MLB.com, 2/24/14)

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4 hours ago, Senor Azul said:

Here’s a relatively new interpretation for OBR that can be found in the 2016 BRD (section 348 about malicious contact, p. 232):

 

The umpire has the right to eject (a player) from the game if it’s (the contact) blatant, and he’d be automatically out. (Torre, MLB.com, 2/24/14)

 

I forgot about that one....yes, thanks for posting that one from the BRD. 

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