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| July 9, 2015 Tbone5 1 posts | diving across home plate line is it legal to dive across the home plate line? |
| July 9, 2015 Home Plate 35 posts | Other than a runner losing their balance, a leg giving out or something of that nature...what would be the point of diving across the line? |
| July 10, 2015 STL0 Men's 60 230 posts | We had a person called out at the World Masters tourney for sliding across the line so I suspect diving would be no different. As Home Plate said, there is no reason for it. The person just did it spontaneously because he was excited (there was no play at the plate at all) and was called out after the play. It almost cost us the game which would have been a shame because we went undefeated last year when it happened. That would have been one heck of a way to lose. |
| July 10, 2015 SSUSA Staff 3485 posts | Base runners may NOT slide into 1st Base or the Scoring Plate/Line unless it is for the limited exception of avoiding a collision with a defensive player ... This limited exception is an umpire's judgment call and is not subject to protest or appeal ... Slipping, tripping, falling, etc., does not automatically constitute sliding, but is also an umpire's judgment call ... Base runners MAY slide back into any base ... See SSUSA Official Rulebook §8.(6) on page 49 ... |
| July 10, 2015 MurrayW Men's 65 221 posts | This happened to us in Las Vegas in 2010. Our team, Austin Rock was playing Rapid Erectors/Scrap Iron from Colorado in a losers bracket game that was supposed to start at 3:30 Saturday afternoon. It didn't start until 8 or 9 PM. It was close the entire game. Rapid Erectors was the visiting team and they went ahead by 7 or 8 runs in the top of the seventh. We battled back and tied it in the bottom of the seventh and had a runner on 1st with two outs. Our batter hit a hard line drive into left and when the ball hit something on the ground it bounced up about 15 feet over the left fielders head. Our runner on first was sent home and was going to beat the throw home. He did a roll like you see football players do when they score a touchdown over the scoring line and was called out -- the game was tied. In the top of the 8th they put up 9 runs. Once again we had a great inning and the same guy ended up on 1st, this time as the tying run. We pinch ran for him this time! The same batter who should have had the walk off hit the inning before was up, and this time he left no doubt by hitting a home run and we won the game 37-36. The games were already behind so this game made it even worse -- the two buffet innings with almost 40 runs scored took about 1 hour. We played right after and in 3rd or 4th inning the lights turned off when we were down 6 or 7 runs. We waited around for about an hour but they couldn't get them to turn back on. So the decision was for us to come back at 7AM the next morning to continue the game. By the time we got back our rooms it was 1 or 2AM. We get up the next morning and it was raining, about 40 degrees and the wind was blowing straight in about 40mph at the field we were playing on. It may have been the most miserable day I have every had to play softball. We ended up losing that game and no one was very happy with our player who caused all the extra time to be played the night before that made it necessary to come out in these conditions Sunday morning! We were not the only team that was upset. We heard several teams point to us and say, "there's that team with that idiot player that rolled over the home plate line and delayed everything!" |
