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10 of baseball’s worst home plate collisions

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Published Dec. 12, 2013, 12:38 p.m. ET

With baseball poised to ban home plate collisions, we look back at some of the most vicious ones in the history of the sport.

  1. 1. More than an exhibition

    This is perhaps the most controversial collision because it occurred in an All-Star Game. Pete Rose barreled into Ray Fosse to win the game in the bottom of the 12th, but Fosse was ultimately diagnosed with a fractured and separated shoulder.

  2. 2. Buster gets busted up

    This was the play that started the momentum for the rule change. Buster Posey gets run into by the Marlins’ Scott Cousins and the Giants star catcher fractured his fibula and tore ligaments in his ankle, ending his 2011 season in May. 

  3. 3. Pudge takes hit, gets mobbed

    What this plate lacks in brutality, it makes up for in importance. Ivan Rodriguez holds onto the ball after this hit from J.T. Snow ended the NLDS, and the Marlins would go onto win the 2003 World Series.

  4. 4. Bo knows collisions

    Bo Jackson’s dive into Rick Dempsey broke the thumb of the Indians catcher: “Bo, being the football player at the same time, got down very low,” Dempsey said years later. “As he came in and hit me, he took my legs out from underneath me.” 

  5. 5. The walk-off run-over

    Ray Lankford crushes Darren Daulton to score from second in the bottom of the 10th in this 1991 game.

  6. 6. Catcher vs. Catcher

    A.J. Pierzynski has the reputation of being one of baseball’s most frustrating characters, so the Cubs’ Michael Barrett used this catcher-on-catcher collision as grounds to punch the White Sox backstop.

  7. 7. How does he hold onto the ball?

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    Chris Davis tries to destroy Jeff Mathis on this play, but the Angels catcher holds onto the ball. The Rangers would go on to win this game in 2011 anyway.

  8. 8. Molina gets pillaged by Pirate

    This vicious blow by Josh Harrison led to upper back, shoulder and neck strains for Yadier Molina.

  9. 9. Nothing minor about this

    This one comes from this past season’s Double-A playoffs. Erie’s Brandon Douglas crushed Harrisburg’s Brian Jeroloman. Jerolman had to be carted off, but thankfully, would be alright. 

  10. 10. Rays of nope

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    The Rays’ 2011 season ended in Game 4 of the ALDS, but you can’t blame Sean Rodriguez. The infielder went all out to score on this play, running over Rangers catcher Mike Napoli.