Double base at first

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Originally posted by greymule
Maybe someday, after some kid gets hurt in a collision at home plate, we will have forced upon us a second home plate, as is used in senior softball, "8 feet from the back tip of home plate on an extended line from 1B."

I've never done a game with two home plates, but I understand that after the runner from 3B advances past a certain line, he cannot return to 3B—and the play at home is treated as a force.

Example:

Gramps get an extra-base hit. He rounds third and then advances past the line of no return. As he tries to make it to home plate #2, the defense throws to home plate #1. F2 tags home plate #1 before Gramps makes it home plate #2, so Gramps is out.

That is the stupidest idea that I have ever hear of in my life. The reason that people get hurt at home is because the catcher is blocking the plate. So if you put down a second plate, the catcher will just move and block that one. It works OK at first base becuase there are no tags involved. Just whoever touches the base first. I would like to have someone steal home with this second home plate. The catcher would catch the pitch, then have to turn and run 8 feet behind him and try to tag the runner.