Sliding at home

Question
QUESTION: Is there a rule that says baserunners must slide at home or be out?  The concern is crashes at home.

ANSWER: Hi Geoff,

we already have a rule on crashes or collisions.  No major nat org I know has any "must slide" rule.

Mark

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QUESTION: Can you direct me to the ASA rule on crashes or plays at home?

Thanks.

Answer
Hi Geoff,

it's not just at home it's anywhere on the bases.

ASA RS13. CRASHING INTO A FIELDER WITH THE BALL. (INTERFERENCE)
In an effort to prevent injury and protect a defensive player attempting
to make a play on a runner, a runner must be called out when they remain
on their feet and crash into a defensive player who is holding the ball and
waiting to apply a tag. To prevent the out ruling, the runner may slide, jump
over the defender holding the ball, go around the defender or return to the
previous base touched. If the act is determined to be flagrant, the offender
is ejected. A runner may slide into the fielder.
A. When a runner is called out for crashing into a fielder holding the
ball, the ball becomes dead. Each runner must return to the last base
touched at the time of the crash as this constitutes interference.
B. When, as in A above, the runner crashes into a fielder holding the ball
before being put out and, in the judgment of the umpire, it was an attempt
to break up an obvious double play, the immediate succeeding
runner is also called out. Rule 8, Section 7 J.
C. When a crash occurs after the runner is called out, the runner closest
to home plate is also out. Rule 8, Section 7 P.
D. When an obstructed runner crashes into a fielder holding the ball, the
obstruction is ignored and the runner is out. (Rule 8, Section 7 Q) This
type of award, Rule 8, Section 5 B (2 and 3), does not give the runner
the right to violate Rule 8, Section 7 Q.
E. When a runner runs outside the three-foot lane to avoid a crash with a
defender holding the ball and waiting to apply a tag, the runner should
be called out.
F. When a defensive player is fielding a thrown ball and the flight of the
ball carries or draws them into the path of the base runner, it is not a
crash.
G. When the ball, runner and the defensive player arrive at the same time
and place, and contact is made, the umpire should not invoke the crash
rule, interference, or obstruction. This is merely incidental contact, or
what some persons commonly call, 揳 wreck.?br> NOTE: If the ball does not enter dead ball territory in either E or F, the
ball remains live.