Who's Got First?

ODJ · #1 (**permalink**) Wed Mar 09, 2011, 11:17pm

Had a similar play:

Bad throw to first. F3 tries to touch the bag, misses. Then tries a swipe tag, misses. "Safe"

DC wants me to get help, he did touch the bag.

"Then why did he try a swipe?"

"He wanted to be sure."

Uh-huh. Play on.

Coach knew why you called safe. Play on.

johnnyg08 · #2 (**permalink**) Wed Mar 09, 2011, 11:32pm

I agree. Coach knew why you called safe, that's why he didn't come out begging.

nwsquid · #3 (**permalink**) Thu Mar 10, 2011, 09:55am

I'd be OK going to my partner for help, but don't expect him to come running in to step on your toes. Huddle up and see if he had a definitive look at it.

End of the day it's your call, but angles are sometimes going to get whacky in 2-man.

I am surprised the coach didn't request you get help from your partner.

johnnyg08 · #4 (**permalink**) Thu Mar 10, 2011, 10:19am

I've had plays like this before. I've been on BU, we've pregamed it...I owned my call...some coaches around here think we have to get help on everything, knowing nothign about our mechanics...there's no way my partner would've seen it.

I had the best look I could get, my partner was watching something else...maybe a touch of 3B, or something else...I took the heat, was in the best position possible and stuck w/ my call w/o asking for help. Right or wrong we do the best we can when working two-man.

Garth Vader · #5 (**permalink**) Thu Mar 10, 2011, 10:22am

i would think that getting the call right would be the most important thing

Simply The Best · #6 (**permalink**) Thu Mar 10, 2011, 10:44am

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Originally Posted by Garth Vader

i would think that getting the call right would be the most important thing

It is but four posters before you sure don't think so.

Check your egos at the door and get the call right.

johnnyg08 · #7 (**permalink**) Thu Mar 10, 2011, 10:53am

Right, but mechanically when I know that my partner wasn't even looking, I'm not going to ask him just to appease somebody who's never opened a mechanics manual.

kylejt · #8 (**permalink**) Thu Mar 10, 2011, 11:07am

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Originally Posted by Garth Vader

i would think that getting the call right would be the most important thing

Negative.

Getting the procedure right is the most important thing.

There's only two guys on the planet I work with that I'd go to first on a call like this. And that would only be in the 60' field, if I were in C, behind the shortstop. Only two guys that I'd trust had my back.

Now if a coach came out to ask me to get help(nicely, of course), and I had doubt (and a good partner), I'd entertain it. Other than that, he's still safe.

Garth Vader · #9 (**permalink**) Thu Mar 10, 2011, 11:21am

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Originally Posted by kylejt

Negative.

Getting the procedure right is the most important thing.

Quote:

There's only two guys on the planet I work with that I'd go to first on a call like this. And that would only be in the 60' field, if I were in C, behind the shortstop. Only two guys that I'd trust had my back.

Now if a coach came out to ask me to get help(nicely, of course), and I had doubt (and a good partner), I'd entertain it. Other than that, he's still safe.