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Garth, I've been in a few Fed games where they've tried this play. It's never worked.
Worst case was a coach who clued me in on their play before the game to assure I knew R1's leadoff to the cut of the outfield grass was legal. When they tried their play, his kid ran halfway to 2nd and went back to the outfield grasscut. F1 initially disengaged the rubber and walked toward R1. R1 eventually broke toward 2nd, and F1 threw to F6 at the bag. The runner stopped short of the base, and when F6 went after him, R1 retraced his footsteps instead of taking his new basepath back toward 1B. I immediately rang him up for 3rd out before R3 scored.
Coach came out to argue. I told him details of the basepath, and advised retracing the steps meant R1 left his new basepath when played upon. Seems the coach didn't teach the trick as well as he thought.
Freix
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