Getting stuck in C and D positons in fastpitch

[DaveASA/FED]

The other post about field mechanics got me thinking, I know it's not good to work without tools but bear with me. How often do you get stuck in the C or D position? I am not near as good with field mechanice as I should be, do too much plate! The other night I got to do field and had a play when I was in the D position. R1 on 3rd, R2 on 2nd ss playing in front of the line 2 outs. So of course there is a hit to SS runners off with the pitch R2 hesitates to not run into a tag ss bobbles ball that heads toward 2nd picks it up and throws for a bang bang play at first. I was trapped!! What I did was ran parallel to basepath to not cross in front of R2, and then not to get in F5's way of fielding so by the time they cleared I had a good angle on the play but had only gotten about in line with the baseline. I feel like I got a good look at it and sold the out progressing closer to 1st so it didn't look like I was so far away. No coach complained, I did have another umpire give me a hard time about not hussleing into the diamond. Is there any way around having to wait for the play to develop, and then ending up farther away than I like?