safe or out

Question
The first baseban is lefty.  Sharp ground ball hit right at him, he goes down and squares himeself in front of incomming ball.  The ball bounces off his chest and trickles to his right about 3 to 4 feet.  While on the ground, he reaches and grabs the ball with his mit.  He then launches towards the first base bag and with his BARE hand touches the base.  Is it safe or out?

Answer
HI Victor,

When I'm asked a question AE sends me an email telling me, in your case I did not get 1 so I didn't know until AE sent a follow up, it sometimes happens and I apologize for the delay.

On a force out the only requirements are legal possession of the ball by the defense and contact with the base. In this case the b-r is out.
(if any equipment contacts the base it must be in it's proper location, ie the player couldn't take off their hat, grab it w/ their hand and touch the base with their dislodged hat.  Well they could but the b-r wouldn't be out)

FP umpires semi-joke that if the girl fields the ground ball, is moving to the base, trips and falls and their pony-tail touches the bag we have an out.

In a tournie once I had F6 field the ball, trip as he ran to 2nd, roll over 3 or 4 times and literally roll over 2nd base with his body.  We had an out on R1 coming from 1st.

Mark