Incorrect Rule Interpretations - a running list

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Jul 31, 2019
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The runner can't dissapear, but the rules do specify what they are to do. They aren't forced to slide, but they must avoid the fielder. A case might be made under any of the following rules if you read them as written. Open to other interpretations.

USSSA http://usssa.com/docs/2020/FPRB_Online_revised_011620.pdf

Rule 8.18.C: Any runner is out when the runner does not legally attempt to avoid a fielder in the immediate act of making a play on her.
Rule 8.18.E: Any runner is out when the runner does not attempt to avoid the fielder on a force play.
Rule 8.18.F: Any runner is out when the runner interferes intentionally with a throw or thrown ball.
Rule 8.18.H: Any runner is out when the runner is prevented from being put out by an illegal act by anyone connected with the team.
NOTE 1: If, in the judgment of the Umpire, this interference is an attempt to prevent a double play and occurs before the runner is put out, the immediate trailing runner shall also be called out.
NOTE 2: If a retired runner interferes and, in the judgment of the Umpire, another runner could have been put out, the Umpire shall declare the runner closest to home out.
 
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