Interesting Play

[BK47]

Not a question here, just something I find kind of humorous and wanted to share.

Yesterday while doing a 13 travel tourney had an odd bizarre play. Not so much "daddy ball" play but kids just not knowing what to do.

I'm in the field in the "C". One out runners on first and second. Batter hits a soft, barely head high liner to second baseman, he cant handle the ball and it drops. The runners are frozen, not moving. Second baseman finally picks up the ball and throws to shortstop who is covering second. I got an out. The runner on second looks at me in wonderment while everyone is telling the shortstop to touch the kid who is still on second base for another out. I just stand there looking at them wondering what is going to happen next. I look over to first to see what is happening there, the kid who was on first heads back to the dugout while the batter runner is now on first. The runner on second now decides he was out and steps off second towards the dugout (their dugout was first base side) and shortstop quickly tags him out. I got out number three. Batter runner decides now he is going to head to second and they start to tag him but I hold up my hand to them and say thats three outs.

As I leave my post and head to the outfield the third base coach asks U1 what happened. I see the discussion going on so I trot back to talk to the coach. Explain to him what I had and he was like in bewilderment of the play but understood the whole thing. I told him that had the runner stayed on second base they would still be batting but he stepped off and shortstop saw that and tagged him for out number 3.