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Re: Who says baseball isn't a contact sport? - OWC Jamie - 06-20-2011
I doubt anyone who claims baseball isn't a contact sport has ever played - at least not real baseball.
Re: Who says baseball isn't a contact sport? - Trouble - 06-20-2011
miK. wrote: Yankees' Russell Martin crushed at home plate - and gets the out
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2011/06/19/2011-06-19_martin_earns_stripes.html#ixzz1PkLD4jqs
I didn't see the play, but from looking at the photos, I think that play by the runner should be illegal. Blocking the plate is a time honored tradition, but I always thought that the runner "punching" the catcher with both arms is going to far. Throwing a cross body block is fine. Bowling him over is fine. But punching him? I don't think so.
Buster has no one to blame but himself. He didn't have the ball, he setup in a poor position, and he didn't give the runner a place to go.
Re: Who says baseball isn't a contact sport? - vision63 - 06-20-2011
Trouble wrote:
[quote=miK.]Yankees' Russell Martin crushed at home plate - and gets the out
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2011/06/19/2011-06-19_martin_earns_stripes.html#ixzz1PkLD4jqs
I didn't see the play, but from looking at the photos, I think that play by the runner should be illegal. Blocking the plate is a time honored tradition, but I always thought that the runner "punching" the catcher with both arms is going to far. Throwing a cross body block is fine. Bowling him over is fine. But punching him? I don't think so.
Buster has no one to blame but himself. He didn't have the ball, he setup in a poor position, and he didn't give the runner a place to go.
Making it illegal would just make another game-stopping kludgy subjective rule. Again, while the catcher has a right to block the plate, they also have to option to get outta my way. If I dislodge the ball, I score.