Base-running Collision

[Guest Mike Baker8]

Problem hitter runs to first running over first baseman pushing him to the ground. This is little League boys 5th 6th 7th grade maybe 8th . first base had been touched with the ball in the first baseman's mitt at least 2 seconds before batter reached first base. Is this on the first baseman or the base runner? It looked like a retaliatory push by the runner

[The Man in Blue]

1 hour ago, Rich Ives said:

NCAA prohibits their use.

That’s it!  Eureka, case closed, everybody can go home safe now!  If NCAA prohibits it, that’s all the world needs.  All the little children are safe now!  Now if only NCAA would prohibit social injustice, famine, war, or even (on a much smaller world relevance scale) their own hypocrisies.  

 

 

1 hour ago, Rich Ives said:

Any time you need a page and a half to describe the various conditions about which part can be used when it's really silly (at best).

I won’t disagree with that at all.  Although that describes vast sections of any rule book.  As @beerguy55 stated, it is a simple concept that works until organizations feel they have to add their own touch or provide 62 exceptions (with fully annotated subsections) which conflict with 17 other rules.

 

 

1 hour ago, Rich Ives said:

If people crash into people and safety bases don't, then the base is of no consequence so you don't need it,  and no one is going to go bonkers about who touched which part when.

Rich, I respect you.  But sometimes the things you say blow my mind.

 

 

1 hour ago, Rich Ives said:

And if you want to discuss teaching, teach F3 where to put their foot and the B-R where to touch the base.  Both skills will last throughout their playing career.

I am 110% with you there.

[beerguy55]

53 minutes ago, Lou B said:

Not around here!

If you are 12 in the 8th grade that means you are graduating high school at 16!

I think you're off by a year or two.

We have Middle School Baseball (7th &8th grades) and they play on a 90 foot diamond, kids are normally 12-14.

I started 8th grade at age 12, ended age 13.  I graduated high school at 17.

[Aging_Arbiter]

[Rich Ives]

19 hours ago, The Man in Blue said:

Rich, I respect you.  But sometimes the things you say blow my mind.

YOU started the bases don't crash - people do bit. 

[The Man in Blue]

8 hours ago, Rich Ives said:

YOU started the bases don't crash - people do bit. 

 

I forgot my sense of humor eludes people sometimes ... it was a spoof on “guns don’t kill people.”

Going to “buy” you a beer ...  

[Umpire in Chief]

On 8/27/2019 at 4:09 PM, Rich Ives said:

And if you want to discuss teaching, teach F3 where to put their foot and the B-R where to touch the base.  Both skills will last throughout their playing career.

YES!!! I'm amazed at multiple levels about how players do these things. It seems so easy and common sense, but I don't think it is being taught well if at all.