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I will just throw in my 1 cent( sometime that's all its worth) Going hard and sliding hard is part of the game and should remain abd be taught. That being said, more rules are in place now a days, like it or not, to protect the players. You cannot slide anymore just to break up a double play, even if you are in gorrila arms reach of the bag.( not even in college) But one of the obvious things that ey have done, like in this case, is protect girls even if they find themselves out of position. The girls sliding may always slide like that and she is not being malicious, but if the circumstances( ss having foot in front of 2nd) makes it look malicious then an umpire is going to make the ejection call. I know the ss should not have her foot there and she has probably somehwere along the line been told that it is dangerous to put it there. But i have played ss before and I defienaltey know it, but sometimes the play takes you there or you just did not execute correctly and you end up flipped. My point is this, the excuse that the player getting crushed, was not in the right spot does not work anymore if the player doing the crushing APPEARS to be doing it maliciously... This is just how it is now a days at every level, just more so from younger to older and amatuer to proffessional..
My 1 cent!!
My 1 cent!!