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Originally Posted by 3appleshigh
You continue to give this call to the 1st baseman, you might as well get out the first aid kit now. With metal spikes on I would coach my kids to make sure the 1st baseman PAID for the OUT, you wanna block the bag, fine, but your gonna bleed as I step throught the top of your foot. I'm gonna reach first your foot there or not.
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I wholeheartedly agree. I was not arguing in favor of F3's positioning. I would stomp on his foot just as hard as I could get away with, if I were the runner. But the fact is that the runner should be diving back on such a close play, and could have easily gotten his hand back on the base in time. I tend not to reward bad baserunning as a general rule of thumb.