It should be common sense, but...

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Wed Oct 03, 2012, 12:40pm

Manny A

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Quote:

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

YOU have to watch. If he goes out, he's got the fly ball and you've got, well, what you didn't get.

But that's just it. Since I thought that ball was mine the whole way, I was watching F8 and the flight of the ball as I moved out towards the right side of the mound, assuming (incorrectly in this case) that my partner was going to button-hook in to take the BR. I didn't see my partner moving out until after the BR was on his way to second.

I guess Boo on me for not knowing the proper mechanic.

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