re: Little league catcher lays out base runner

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I remember a similar play happened when I was in little league where I was the catcher, but the base runner lowered his shoulder before leveling right through me. I ended up on my arse, and was a little shook up, but I made the tag when I took the contact and held onto the ball. The runner was ejected for leading with his shoulder and after the game my dad said, "good job."

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had a similar occurrence, myself, except for the runner wasn't ejected. Was a pretty cheap move as we were at that age where some players were far more physically developed than others. This dude was one of them and I, for lack of a better word, wasn't . Throw beat him, and he decided to try to run me over instead of sliding. I did hold onto the ball, though, and made the play.

Women in the video was such a snow flake. Kid got a hard tag to the chest. He'll be ok, and maybe he'll be a smarter base runner in the future.