How to handle fake steal cat/mouse dance

[jicecone]

This was my reply to an earlier thread concerning the same subject. suggestion to the coach mwy be appropriate.

Try having the pitcher come off the mound towards the plate and retrieving the ball from the catcher at a shorter distance. Then, as the pitcher proceeds to the mound, play, fake or check the runner. Once the pitcher is on the mound the runner has to either go back to the base or go home.

Im not saying it is a perfect solution but I have seen it work many many times.