What do you do.......

[BigUmpJohn]

Originally posted by kellerumps
Here is the situation, you are have the plate on a 2 person womens fast pitch game. This play happened in a fall college game, but it could happen with any age group in any federation.

Nobody is on base. There is a routine bunt that the 3rd baseperson fields cleanly and fires to 1st only no one is covering. You notice that your parter(Kellerumps were split up so it's not us) is caught up in "No Mans Land" as the ball bounces into right field and the BR breaks for 2nd.

What do you do?????

First, one question. Where is No Man's Land? Could I assume that the BU was in no position to make a call at 2B?

If this is the case, as the PU, I would be about a third of the way down the first base line anyway watching for a running lane violation. After that, I hopefully would notice that my partner was in a tough predicament. Therefore, I would take a quick left and get as close to 2B as I can but leave myself some room to maneuver to 3B if needed. This would be just as if my partner went out to cover a fly ball. The infield would be mine.

If I don't notice, then I would just pray that the BR gets to 2B without incident.

This situation or something similar would have to be discussed in pregame.