What if someone flips it out of their glove and just kind of bounces it off their hands and arms (kind of a chaotic yet controlled form of juggling) while they run the ball in to mess with the runners? No more sacrifice flies if someone could control that, which I'm sure they could if they practiced it.
Runner can advance once the ball touches the fielder or his glove
Runner can advance once the ball touches the fielder or his glove
But it won't be a sacrifice. It goes as an error instead and the presumably slow runner will now be clogging the bases. I foresee a great shift to this new tactical defensive strategy coming now that this is all out in the open.
Feel like I hit the mlb lottery. Got tickets before the season started for tonight's game and it ends up being Darvish vs Felix. Can't think of the last time I was so excited to get to the ballpark.
Last edited by JimHalpert; 04-16-2014 at 02:10 PM.
But it won't be a sacrifice. It goes as an error instead and the presumably slow runner will now be clogging the bases. I foresee a great shift to this new tactical defensive strategy coming now that this is all out in the open.
Feel like I hit the mlb lottery. Got tickets before the season started for tonight's game and it ends up being Darvish vs Felix. Can't think of the last time I was so excited to get to the ballpark.
Good move by Girardi in the Yankee game. On Catcher Interference the manager has the option to take the outcome of the play or the CI, but it's up to the manager to come out and tell the ump. The play resulted in a run, so Girardi took the run.
Of course no one in the TV booth has any clue what's going on. It's amazing to me that there's no one who can tell them the rules as they sit there openly speculating for 5 minutes about what happened. I mean... they are pro baseball analysts. They should know themselves...
Jim Johnson
