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re: Should home plate collisions be allowed in Rec Softball?
Posted on 5/12/15 at 5:47 am to Brightside Bengal
Posted on 5/12/15 at 5:47 am to Brightside Bengal
If you're not first you're last.
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Posted on 5/12/15 at 5:48 am to rantfan
Here are the simple rules of baseball and softball that comes to plays at the plate.
If the runner has ample time to make a move to avoid a collision then the runner is expected to do so. A runner just can't lower their shoulder and go through the catch unless we are talking about the big leagues.
However, if at the last second the runner is just about to reach home plate and the catch, regardless of sex, age, or size steps back into the base path, no one would expect the runner to pull some heisman winning juke move or hall of fame slide to avoid the catcher. That is the catchers fault for getting run over.
If the runner has ample time to make a move to avoid a collision then the runner is expected to do so. A runner just can't lower their shoulder and go through the catch unless we are talking about the big leagues.
However, if at the last second the runner is just about to reach home plate and the catch, regardless of sex, age, or size steps back into the base path, no one would expect the runner to pull some heisman winning juke move or hall of fame slide to avoid the catcher. That is the catchers fault for getting run over.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 6:02 am to Jim Rockford
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You hone that killer instinct from years of travel ball, and you don't just turn it off that easily
This
Posted on 5/12/15 at 6:18 am to Brightside Bengal
Catcher shouldn't block the plate if they don't want to get run over
Posted on 5/12/15 at 6:20 am to AllemanWC
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Rolling someone at the plate and hitting back up the middle at the pitcher are no-no's in rec. softball. You will get your arse whipped for both. No need for it.
Well, it's not like I can place my hits. If it goes back up the middle it's an accident
Posted on 5/12/15 at 6:23 am to Brightside Bengal
Of course they shouldn't be allowed. It's fricking recreational softball for Christs sake
Posted on 5/12/15 at 6:36 am to Fat and Happy
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If the runner has ample time to make a move to avoid a collision then the runner is expected to do so. A runner just can't lower their shoulder and go through the catch unless we are talking about the big leagues.
Who has the right to the base path?
Maybe the 1st basemen should stand in front of the bag to make the runner go around
Posted on 5/12/15 at 6:37 am to Brightside Bengal
I played in a league where every play at the plate was treated as a force out. There was a commit line halfway between 3rd and home and if you crossed that line you had to go home. Kept the games a little closer, and avoided home plate collisions........ I like it.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 6:39 am to Brightside Bengal
Only in church leagues.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 6:42 am to Hammertime
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In life, there are winners, and there are losers
If recreation league softball is your measuring stick for being a winner or loser in life, it's too late.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 6:43 am to Topwater Trout
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Who has the right to the base path?
Not sure how the rule reads for softball but for most levels of baseball, only the catcher can block the path if the throw is on the way. Other fielders must be in possession of the ball and then blocking is permitted. An infielder making a play on batted ball has right of way in the base path.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 7:02 am to SomethingLikeA
No. Absolutely not.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 7:05 am to Fat and Happy
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However, if at the last second the runner is just about to reach home plate and the catch, regardless of sex, age, or size steps back into the base path, no one would expect the runner to pull some heisman winning juke move or hall of fame slide to avoid the catcher. That is the catchers fault for getting run over.
Nope
You must slide. Period. If you don't slide and there's a collision 99% of umps will call you out, and most will toss you from the game.
I played 15 years, all around the South, and nowhere were you allowed to run over the catcher. It's not MLB, no matter how much some of the douche bags playing think it is.
This post was edited on 5/12/15 at 7:12 am
Posted on 5/12/15 at 7:05 am to CoachDon
Posted on 5/12/15 at 7:11 am to Brightside Bengal
Your playing in a grown men's slower version of a girls game. Yet you want to be able to run over defenseless man with no pads.........I love millennials
Posted on 5/12/15 at 7:17 am to JJ27
You play to win the game.
Seriously though, I'd say both at fault. The baserunner is an a-hole for trucking the catcher, but the catcher also needs to use better situational awareness. If you see some big arse brute flying down the base path toward you, it is probably best to GTFO of the way.
Seriously though, I'd say both at fault. The baserunner is an a-hole for trucking the catcher, but the catcher also needs to use better situational awareness. If you see some big arse brute flying down the base path toward you, it is probably best to GTFO of the way.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 7:26 am to Brightside Bengal
No one on my squad would do it. But we arent assholes. As ive gotten older, ive tried my best to avoid being injured in recreational sports, or any other time, for that matter. I slid at second last game, and have a nice strawberry as a result. Cant imagine how sore id be after a home plate collision
Posted on 5/12/15 at 7:49 am to AllemanWC
quote:Just curious how you would avoid this
hitting back up the middle at the pitcher are no-no's in rec. softball. You will get your arse whipped for both. No need for it.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 7:54 am to saderade
Anyone with a tad bit of experience can avoid hitting a line drive up the middle most of the time.
Catchers shouldn't be trucked on purpose IMO when playing rec softball.
I quit playing because idiots thought they were getting a big check at the end of the game for winning.
Catchers shouldn't be trucked on purpose IMO when playing rec softball.
I quit playing because idiots thought they were getting a big check at the end of the game for winning.
Posted on 5/12/15 at 7:55 am to Brightside Bengal
Home plate collisions in Rec Softball is unbelievably trashy (assuming it wasn't intentional)....grow up
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