Mechanics question

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Originally Posted by Skahtboi

As has been stated it is the PU's call all the way. It is also pretty darn routine and a quite easy play to cover if you are PU.

K, so I don't have as much experience as most of you, but still, I've never seen a force play at third on a ball hit to the outfield. So we're probably visualizing something different. I've got a ball hit very sharply to F7 who's playing shallow. F5 is stretching toward left field like a first baseman toward the throw and the runner didn't have to hold up at all.

If it's the play I'm visualizing, then here's the problem. I'm pretty young and fast but there's no way that a runner coming hard from second --who left with the pitch -- can get to third at the same time as a ball to the left fielder gets to third and me -- who started moving from set after the ball was hit -- have time to get from behind home plate to any angle that's even close to perpendicular to that throw.

I can understand getting a good look at a play if something else happens, like the catch/no catch with the runner holding up, but the sharp line drive?
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