Getting straightlined?

newump · #1 (**permalink**) Sat Jun 23, 2007, 09:54pm

good stuff, garth - as usual. keep the detailed mechanics/footwork stuff coming. it is much appreciated.

just to clarify - on your sit with R1 and a slow roller to F6. you're in B and you rotate to your right with the ball as it heads to F6 - chest to ball. and then you rotate to your left and head for the 1st- 2nd baseline, while looking back to your right to see the throw. and then set and make the call. is that correct?

GarthB · #2 (**permalink**) Sat Jun 23, 2007, 10:05pm

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Originally Posted by newump

good stuff, garth - as usual. keep the detailed mechanics/footwork stuff coming. it is much appreciated.

just to clarify - on your sit with R1 and a slow roller to F6. you're in B and you rotate to your right with the ball as it heads to F6 - chest to ball. and then you rotate to your left and head for the 1st- 2nd baseline, while looking back to your right to see the throw. and then set and make the call. is that correct?

With the ball to my right, I step forward with my left and drop step with my right, keeping my chest to ball until I can determine from where the throw will come. I then drop step with my left and, while keeping watching the ball, run towards to a position that will put me close to 90 degree angle to the play.

If the throw is a quality throw, I come to a standing set and make the call.

The footwork is not important. The positioning is. The key, I believe, to not getting straightlined is to realize the "working area" is overated.

Obviously, with less than two outs and if F6 indicates he is going for the DP, positioning changes, but the concept of gaining both angle and distance does not.