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Major League Baseball and its players have banned most home plate collisions but left open an exception if the catcher has the ball and is blocking the runner's direct path to home plate. A new rule, 7.13, was adopted by MLB and the players' association on a one-year experimental basis, the sides said Monday. A comment attached to the rule states ''the failure by the runner to make an effort to touch the plate, the runner's lowering of the shoulder, or the runner's pushing through with his hands, elbows or arms, would support a determination that the runner deviated from the pathway in order to initiate contact with the catcher in violation.'' ''It stops guys just going out of their way just to try to dislodge the baseball when they (catchers) have the plate,'' Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington said. If a catcher blocks home plate without possession of the ball, the runner shall be safe.
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