Hey everyone! Thanks in advance for keeping me on the straight and narrow. This is my second year doing Fed and it's going well, but I had a coach question me a few times the other night and he got me wondering.. Here's the sich-
BR lays down a nice bunt that rolls toward the pitcher about three feet out of the batter's box. Catcher and pitcher both scramble, runner hauls for first, pitcher comes up with the ball, first baseman can't seem to get the angle on the throw and switches feet on the bag, throw goes in the dirt, runner tags the bag and I call safe. Here's what the coach saw-BR alters her path too far out of the box and doesn't make a direct path to the running "box" on the baseline. He felt that this caused the firstbaseman to have to circle around her to get the throw and was interference. He cited her footprints to prove his point. (But then he also tried to convince me that because his third baseman had a foot fair when she snagged a foul ground ball, that it was fair.....) I thanked him for sharing his view but that it just wasn't what I saw, but now I'm wondering if there is something that I wasn't looking for that I should be in the future. I figured that if she was staying out of the way of the catcher jumping out towards the ball, that would explain why she veered infield on her way to the box. Is there something that I'm missing? Thanks again and hi! to everyone from McGriff's!
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Cindy
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