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Originally Posted by Rock Chalk
In this situation, R1 had taken a huge lead and was told by the first basement to step off. It's the right move. The pitcher stepped off and just did a pump fake to try and see what the runner on 3rd was doing.
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Stepping off the rubber and freezing the runner at third in this situation might have been the right thing go do. However, I was speaking about a routine throw to first. I've seen some pitchers that don't know how to do the jump turn. Two issues with that are, 1) a ball gets thrown OOB, 2 base award and 2) runners are never picked off.
I suspect it's because the coach doesn't know how to teach the move.