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Old Fri Jun 24, 2005, 09:14am
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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Except that I don't understand why anyone would WANT to penalize it. It seems like a good play that can be designed to get an out (with some risk). Sounds like good baseball to me. Similar to the double-steal play where the ball is thrown to shortstop in order to try to get R3 to break for home.
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