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Originally Posted by WestMichBlue
Still – I have a problem with it. As a young player, I was taught to field a bad (errant?) throw at 1B by going to the outside of the (single) base and stretching in foul territory. This gave me a better opportunity to catch the throw, and it reduced the chance of collision as the B-R simply slid over to the fair side of the base.
I cannot do that with a double base if I have to maintain contact with the white bag, as I would be stretching over the colored base – creating a very unsafe situation. But if I went to the safe position of tagging the colored base and standing in foul territory, you would not give me the out based on case play 8.2.40
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It is no different now. As a young player, you were probably using a rock that you found just sitting at the entrance to your cave
Also, as a young player, you were probably told to forget the base, just make sure the ball doesn't get by you.
F3 still has the same mechanic and the same size base to touch. The runner can still run to the inside of the line. The only thing that has changed is that there is now a 15" in foul territory of which the defense would like to take advantage.
Your concern is noted, but you are not going to get me on your side because I think the DB should be abandoned.
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Suppose I take a very strict interpretation of case play 8.2.41 and go to foul territory and lift my tag foot one inch off the colored bag. Then after catching the throw I close back down on the base. Thus I am fielding an errant throw in foul ground, and then coming back to the bag. Would you give me the out?
WMB
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Been there, done that, and you are not going to get that call. As the book states, the defender needs to come back to the base. If you have time to think about just lifting your foot above the base, the throw cannot be that errant. If you had the same discussion with Henry as I, he probably told you an "errant" throw is one which cannot be caught. In your sly act above, you catch the ball.