Who says baseball isn't a contact sport?

[OWC Jamie]

I doubt anyone who claims baseball isn't a contact sport has ever played - at least not real baseball.

[Trouble]

miK. wrote: Yankees' Russell Martin crushed at home plate - and gets the out
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseba...z1PkLD4jqs

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.

[vision63]

Trouble wrote:
[quote=miK.]Yankees' Russell Martin crushed at home plate - and gets the out
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseba...z1PkLD4jqs

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.