Most catchers block the top half of the plate with their left foot and leave the bottom half exposed so the runner will slide for that part.

The runner slid into a shellhole without slowing down, raising his hands to his ears as he thumped against the dirt.

The runner may also deliberately slide into the fielder at the base he is trying to steal to keep him from catching the ball or to disrupt a double play.

He made a sledge whose runners slid on the air between themselves and whatever object would otherwise have touched them.

Baylor let out a fuming noise-part hiss, part whimper-and a runner of saliva slid between his lips.

A runner may not slide head-first except when retreating to a previously held base.

A runner materialized out of the night and slid into the hole.

Then he twisted his body and slapped the base with his glove for a forceout, just before the runner slid in.

Daufin was staring at the baseball game, where a runner had slid into home plate.

In February about 200 runners slid around a 26.4-mile course laid out atop a glacier in the first-ever Antarctica Marathon.