[SRW]

This very type of play is what lead to me ejecting a head coach of a very good team last week. (The same team that, if you recall 1 year ago, beat another team 64-0.) He had R1 on 1B, steal on the pitch, she hook-slides to the outfield side of 2B. SS comes down with a tag on R1's shoulder, but R1 slid wide and never made contact with 2B.

My mechanic: Point with my left hand at the tag, yell "tag", then like Wade said, sell the 'out' big and loud.


The following discussion is not related to the mechanic, but rather what led to him being ejected.

In the resulting discussion with the HC, he politely explained to me that from his view in the 3B box, his R1 got to the bag before the tag. I explained to him that his runner never touched 2B.

He was still not over the fact that in the previous inning, another of his runners left 1B early and was called out. That, combined with this play, caused the HC to tell me that I needed to get in the game and make the right calls, and to pull my head out.

He proceeded to watch the game from the parking lot about 300 feet away.