Getting straightlined?

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by GarthB

Heading for the working area and just pivoting towards plays are for those who can't move. The goal these days is to get the angle and close in on the first play.

Unless there is no possible way to know where the play will be.

Bases full, ground ball to F6's right.

I'd get to the working area, and just react the best I could to get some angle on any play, whether it be at 3rd, 2nd, or 1st. From the working area on plays like this you are only about 5 or 6 steps away for calling something at 3rd or 1st without getting straightlined. I feel confident I can get 5 or more steps in as soon as I can tell where the ball is going (fields the ball and keeps gliding his feet towards 3rd, its going to 3rd. Turns his chest towards the 3rd/home baseline, its going to 1st. Going to 2nd, those feet are gonna turn pretty quick to turn a potential DP.)

I guess my point is that the working area can be used as a place to work OUT of, not FROM neccessarily.