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I never like seeing anyone get hurt in any fashion, but Posey was illegally blocking the plate, the catcher has no right to impede the baserunners path to the plate, too many catchers set themselves up in the base path before they have the ball in their possession and this is illegal...the runner then has the right to run him....Posey should have set himself up a few feet up from the plate and then with the ball in his possession block the plate and in doing so he would have been able to brace himself for any possible impact. If any rule should be changed is that if the catcher impedes the runners path to the plate it prior to having possession of the ball it should be deemed interference. You don't see a first baseman blocking first base prior to having the ball...why should the catcher be allowed to do this...He deserved to get run, it was a clean play...
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