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Originally posted by greymule
For what it's worth, when I played, fake tags were considered unsportsmanlike only if they were unnecessary (runner stealing 2B, batters fouls the ball, F6 fakes a tag anyway). However, if the fielder had a legitimate reason for wanting to slow the runner down (runner stealing 2B, ball gets away from catcher), that was OK. Even then, that was considered "bush," since runners knew better than to react to what a fielder was doing.
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Fake tags are never necessary.
What they do in any other game is basically irrelevant. A fielder away from the basepath feigning a play on a ball is nothing. A fielder feigning the receipt or throw of a ball on or relatively near a base which causes a runner to react is going to draw an obstruction call every time.
Sun Nov 30, 2003, 01:03pm
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