Jake Marisnick ran on Jonathan Lucroy and should probably be suspended

It's pretty clear: Jake Marisnick of Houston was not close to the plate, did not even aim for the plate when he wiped out the Angels catcher Jonathan Lucroy. Lucroy has been hospitalized and Marisnick has been summoned for violating the collision rule between the MLB players and the Angels think the suspension should be next.

Marisnick was running the cross-country race when he crushed Lucroy as he attempted to score in the eighth inning of the 11-10 win at Houston on Sunday. What happened is one of the most frightening collisions of recent years – that's exactly what baseball was trying to legislate when it added the catcher protection rule in 2014.

Lucroy, who was bleeding, was rescued on a cart and the angels claimed that he had been taken to the hospital for a CT scan and assessment for a possible concussion and a broken nose.

"It certainly did not look like a clean game," said Brad Ausmus, former receiver of the Angels. "I do not know what really happened. It looked like Marisnick had stepped to the left and got in with her arm raised. The call was right. The Major League Baseball should probably take a look at it and consider a type of suspension, quite frankly.

Marisnick took a step to his left, to the infield and away from the baseline, just before he hit Lucroy. This makes it an obvious violation of the collision rule between the two teams, according to which[a] The rider who tries to score can not deviate from his direct path to the plate to make contact with the receiver. Marisnick was called to the field and the review was confirmed.

Marisnick stated that he did not intend to overthrow Lucroy, but was trying to avoid the receiver.

"It was a bad game," said Marisnick. "For me, I was running and I see him taking a step forward, as if he was going to fall back and forth, so I tried to take a step forward and slide the head first into the inner corner. And I looked at the room again and it seems like it's falling right in front of me and once I've sort of made a decision, it was too late. And it was a bad piece, and I hope everything will be fine. "

Marisnick regrets and her explanation seems somewhat plausible – it was a decision made in a split second and at full speed; the decision was wrong, but he did everything to hit Lucroy and came first to the shoulders. I am not sure that intent matters now to Lucroy, nor the importance this attaches to the MLB Discipline.