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What are the rules around the plate as far as baseline goes when avoiding tags/catcher blocking the plate ?? We had a player get called out for being out of the baseline at home for sliding out around the catcher on a sac fly play. He was able to reach plate. But we have all also seen the player miss the plate and run back and touch it, etc.
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Originally posted by dad43:
If he can reach the plate then not out of baseline


Not necessarily so. Depends on where the catcher is and the reaction of the runner at the time of the initial tag attempt.

I had a runner go at least four feet to his right to avoid a tag and then begin his slide toward the plate. He could touch the the plate, but he had already gone out of his basepath.
No difference between the plate and any other base.

The key is, as KK states, only during the tag attempt.

You are F2, you have the ball and are coiled to apply the tag to the approaching runner, if the runner suddenly veers to avoid your tag, he is, at that moment, restricted to 3' left or right of his current path.

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