"C" mechanics on a throw home from OF

[WestMichBlue]

This mechanic confuses me, and I finally paid the penalty.

From C, multiple runners, ball hit to outfield, you come inside, and throw goes home. Now what? If you stay inside you are possibly in the way and perhaps not in the best position to make a call at a base. If you head back outside and they cut the throw and make a quick throw to a base you may be in trouble.

In girls FP I’ve generally been OK on the inside, though I’ve gone in circles sometimes trying to follow the play, and have hit the deck a couple times to avoid a throw. But in Men’s FP it’s like a war zone in there and I feel like a target in a shooting gallery.

Last night the throw went home and in an instant it went to 3B. By time I focused on 3B, the ball was past, picked up by F6, and the throw was heading somewhere towards 2B, but directly at me. From the time the first throw from F8 passed me going home until I got hit could not have been more than 1.5 seconds. I feel very lucky that I do not have a broken arm, but I am badly bruised and in pain today.

I generally come inside F6 about halfway to pitching plate. Because men play so much deeper, and the play moves so much faster, I suspect that I did not get far enough inside last night and may have been too close to the base line.

So what’s the answer? Stay out? Come in, and retreat if the throw goes home? Try to get further inside? Give up Men’s FP because my reflexes may be too slow?

WMB