quote:Originally posted by dash_riprock:
This case play should clear it up for you.
8.4.2.A: On a play at the plate, F2, who is on his knees, is about to receive the throw. R1 decides to hurdle F2 or jump over him feet first.
RULING: The runner is out. A runner is entitled to slide legally or legally attempt to get around a fielder who has the ball waiting to make the tag. Going over the top of the fielder who is not lying on the ground by hurdling, jumping over or diving over the fielder is dangerous and, therefore, illegal. A runner may jump or hurdle a fielder, who is lying on the ground, but diving over a fielder is always illegal.
BTW: The way this play is worded, F2 may be guilty of obstruction, but that is beside the point.
No, because the glove is not the fielder. The OP is not committing an illegal act.