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Old Sun Jul 05, 2015, 05:13pm
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Originally Posted by dlsumpntx View Post
What do you think about, at the pre-game conference, telling coaches to have their players throw their hands up if/when a batted ball goes out of play and we will place the runners accordingly? Personally I don't like it because I can tell if the ball goes out of play.
I think it is the same coaching as telling them to keep running in the dead ball topic. It's up to the coaches to teach that. If it does come up, I remind them that the player's signal does not make the ball dead, just indicates that s/he is not touching it.
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