Help on "tag"

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Originally Posted by Dholloway1962

Play at the plate, catcher has the ball cleanly in her glove and makes the tag on runner sliding in. Big pile up as they meet. Why do we hesitate and look for the ball. If ball is rolling around we have a safe. Even though the catcher had "control" of the ball at time of tag, if she doesn't have it when the dust settles we have a safe don't we? Or is runner out immediately when tag is made?

Sometimes you have to separate black/white mumbo jumbo goof off stuff on a mb vs real life.

You have a slide play and that ball ends up rolling around on the ground.. you have one call..

That is called this..

"SAFE"

or in lieu of that, if you are a baseball guy you can do this

"safe safe safe" signal safe 6 times, point to the ground "its safe there its on the ground HE DROPPED IT" and signal safe a few more times for emphasis.

Regardless of what you do, you call anything else and you goofed it up imo... and the heckling you should receive.. well you will receive it, so enjoy it.. you earned it.