Originally posted by Steve M
...Would you change anything on your positioning, if you'd had the chance?
Only to be inside the infield to see the dropped ball, but then, we're not playing baseball, are we??? 🙂
Otherwise, no. I parallelled the runner going to second, I was in a good 90 degree angle position from where the tag was going to be, about 6-8 feet away. The runner's body blocked my view of the dropped ball as she slid. The ball being dropped and scooped up happened so quickly that I never saw the ball on the ground.
Thanks for the comments and opinions, all!