One Of The Most Important Rules Of Being A High School Coach Is That You're Not Allowed To Tackle Any Of The Players
There are plenty of unwritten rules in baseball and softball. Most of those rules all apply to playing the game with a certain level of etiquette and respect. They are unwritten because they'd be difficult to enforce from an objective standpoint, but the majority of teams treat them like a code of conduct.
Now here's the thing--I don't know if there's a specific rule in the book that explicitly states that a high school softball coach shouldn't go darting out onto the field to tackle an opposing player. I don't know if that specific verbiage is in the rulebook, or if this is just another "unwritten rule". But not tackling a player should be one of the easier rules to follow, no?
Don't get me wrong. I get it. There are always going to be kids who deserve to get tackled. There are always going to be kids who you'd like to tackle. But you just can't act on those impulses. You have to push those feelings deep down there and hope that life eventually catches up with that kid. But the moment you go running onto the field to form tackle a child that isn't even on the team that you're coaching? Well now it's not even just the high school softball rulebook you need to be worried about, but the United States Law as well.
By the way--I don't even get what this brouhaha was about in the first place. Seemed like a good, hard play at the plate to me. Girl in white is trying to beat the tag, catcher is blocking the plate, and then she gets up with the catcher right in her face. Not really sure what else she was supposed to do there, but it probably doesn't involve getting tackled by the other team's coach.